2019 Nobel Prizes

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The 2019 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. [1] [2]

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Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm. [3] [4]

Prizes

Physics

Awardee(s)
Jim Peebles (cropped 2).jpg James Peebles

(b. 1935)

Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canadian

Flag of the United States.svg American

"for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" [5]
Michel Mayor, 2012 (cropped).jpg Michel Mayor

(b. 1942)

Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Swiss"for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"
Didier Queloz, 2012 (cropped).jpg Didier Queloz

(b. 1966)

Chemistry

Awardee(s)
John B. Goodenough (cropped).jpg John B. Goodenough

(1922–2023)

Flag of the United States.svg American"for the development of lithium ion batteries" [6]
Stanley Whittingham 2019.jpg M. Stanley Whittingham

(b. 1941)

Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British

Flag of the United States.svg American

Akira Yoshino cropped 3 Akira Yoshino 201910.jpg Akira Yoshino

(b. 1948)

Flag of Japan.svg Japanese

Physiology or Medicine

Awardee(s)
William G. Kaelin Jr. UNIST CGI 2019 (cropped).jpg William Kaelin Jr.

(b. 1957)

Flag of the United States.svg  United States "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability" [7]
Peter J. Ratcliffe (cropped).jpg Peter J. Ratcliffe

(b. 1954)

Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Gregg L. Semenza (cropped).jpg Gregg L. Semenza

(b. 1956)

Flag of the United States.svg  United States

Literature

Awardee(s)
Peter-handke (cropped3).jpg Peter Handke

(b. 1942)

Flag of Austria.svg  Austria "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience" [8]

Peace

Awardee(s)
Abiy Ahmed 2019.jpg Abiy Ahmed

(b. 1976)

Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea." [9]

Economic Sciences

Awardee(s)
FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 (6310827426) (cropped).jpg Abhijit Banerjee

(b. 1961)

Flag of the United States.svg  United States "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty" [10]
Nobel 9 Dec 2019 Esther Duflo.jpg Esther Duflo

(b. 1972)

Flag of France.svg  France

Flag of the United States.svg  United States

Kremer bio (cropped).jpg Michael Kremer

(b. 1964)

Flag of the United States.svg  United States

Controversies

Chemistry

Some questioned the Chemistry Prize's awarding to three scientists without award or acknowledgement to Rachid Yazami, a scientist whose research on the lithium-ion battery was similarly crucial to those recognized. [11]

Literature

Handke's awarding of the Literature Prize was scrutinized for his historic denying of the Bosnian genocide, as well as his affinity for Slobodan Milošević. [12] [13] Several authors, historians, and organizations, including PEN International condemned the Nobel Foundation's decision. [13] [14] [15] [15] [16] Additionally, the governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Turkey issued condemnations against the award, and the ambassadors from Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Turkey boycotted the award ceremony. [15] [17] [18]

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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019. Handke is the second Austrian Nobel laureate in Literature after Elfriede Jelinek, who won the prize in 2004.

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