Nobel Prize 2009
• Physics: Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith
(For the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit-the CCD sensor)
• Chemistry: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath
(For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome)
• Medicine/Physiology: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
(For the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase)
• Literature: Herta Muller (Who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose,
depicts the landscape of the dispossessed)
• Peace : Barack Obama (For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and
cooperation between peoples)
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