The 2009 Nobel Prize in
physiology or medicine was awarded to
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, of the University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA,
Carol W. Greider, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, and
Jack W. Szostak of the Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by
telomeres and the enzyme telomerase".
The 2009 Nobel Prize in
Physics was awarded to
Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, United Kingdom; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China,
Willard S. Boyle, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, and
George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the
CCD sensor.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry was awarded to
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom,
Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and
Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel for studies of the structure and function of the
ribosome.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in
Literature was awarded to
Herta Müller of Germany "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
The 2009 Nobel
Peace Prize was awarded to
Barack Obama of the USA "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".
The 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel goes to
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" and
Oliver E. Williamson, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm".
10-05-2009, 01:46 PM
The 2009 Nobel Prizes 
