Nobel Laureates: 2008

       List of nobel laureates in this year, who worked for the world. The Nobel Prize amount for 2008 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 10 million per full Nobel Prize.

 

Nobel Peace Prize

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laureate : Martti Ahtisaari

Country : Finland

Citations : Former President of Finland, "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"

 

Nobel Prize in Literature

 

Name : Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio

Nationality : France

Language : French

Citation : "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"

 

Nobel Prize in Physic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name : Makoto Kobayashi

Country : Japan

Rationale : "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, which predicts the existance of at least three families of quarks in nature"

 

Name : Toshihide Maskawa

Country : Japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name : Yoichiro Nambu

Country : United States

Rationale : "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"

 

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

 

Name : Martin Chalfie

Country : United States

Name : Osamu Shimomura

Country : Japan

Name : Roger Y. Tsien

Country : United States

Rationale : "for the discovery and the development of the green fluroescent protein, GFP"

 

Nobel Prize in Medicine (Physiology)

 

Name : Harald zur Hausen

Country : Germany

Citation : "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses cervical cancer"

 

Name : Francoise Barre-Sinoussi & Luc Montagnier

Country : France

Citation : "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"

 

Nobel Prize in Economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name : Paul Krugman

Nationality : United States

Citation : "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity."

 

 

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