Nobel Prize 2017 : Honors & Awards

Nobel Prize 2017

The 2017 Nobel Prize were announced recently in 6 different fields viz. Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. We have compiled all the winners under one complete table that will make you remember all the winners in a go.

Brief History of the Nobel Prize-

On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace - the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prize distribution was first done on 1901. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. 

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Here is the Complete list of Winners of Nobel Prize 2017-

Announcement of Nobel Prize Winners for the year 2017 has started. We will update this list as and when the names of winners are announced for different categories.

Category	Winners & Prize Share	Recognition For
Physics	Rainer Weiss (Prize Share: 1/2) Barry C. Barish (Prize Share: 1/4) Kips S. Thorne (Prize Share: 1/4)	“for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
Chemistry	Jacques Dubochet (Prize Share: 1/3) Joachim Frank (Prize Share: 1/3) Richard Henderson (Prize Share: 1/3)	“for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”
Medicine/Physiology	Jeffrey C. Hall (Prize Share: 1/3) Michael Rosbah (Prize Share: 1/3) Michael W. Young (Prize Share: 1/3)	“for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”
Literature	Kazuo Ishigoru (Prize Share: 1/1)	“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”
Peace	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – (Prize Share: 1/1)	“for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.
Economic Sciences	Richard H. Thaler (Prize Share: 1/1)	“for his contributions to behavioural economics”

Each category carries prize money of 9 million Swedish kronor (nearly 72 crore in terms of Indian Rupees), which will be given to winners as per above mentioned prize share. Each winner will also get a diploma and a gold medal at the annual award ceremony on 10^th December (death anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel).

Here are some Static and Interesting Facts about the Nobel Prize-

The Nobel Prize in Physics-

1. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
2. 111 Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded between 1901-2017.
3. 2 women have been awarded the Physics Prize so far.
4. 25 years was the age of the youngest Physics Laureate ever, Lawrence Bragg, when he was awarded the 1915 Physics Prize together with his father.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry-

1. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. 
2. 109 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded between 1901 and 2017.
3. 4 women have been awarded the Chemistry Prize so far.
4. 1 person, Frederick Sanger, has been awarded the Chemistry Prize twice, in 1958 and in 1980.
5. 35 years was the age of the youngest Chemistry Laureate ever, Frédéric Joliot, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935.
6. 85 years was the age of the oldest Chemistry Laureate, John B. Fenn, when he was awarded the Chemistry Prize in 2002.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-

1. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
2. 108 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded between 1901 and 2017.
3. 12 women have been awarded the Medicine Prize so far.
4. 32 years was the age of the youngest Medicine Laureate ever, Frederick G. Banting, who was awarded the 1923 Medicine Prize for the discovery of insulin.
5. 87 years was the age of the oldest Medicine Laureate ever, Peyton Rous, when he was awarded the Medicine Prize in 1966 for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses.

The Nobel Prize in Literature-

1. The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden.
2. 110 Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded 1901-2017.
3. 14 women have been awarded the Literature Prize so far.
4. 41 years was the age of the youngest Literature Laureate ever, Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book.
5. 88 years was the age of the oldest Literature Laureate ever, Doris Lessing, when she was awarded the Prize in 2007.

The Nobel Peace Prize-

1. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five persons who are chosen by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament of Norway).
2. 98 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded 1901-2017.
3. 16 women have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so far.
4. 1 Peace Prize Laureate, Le Duc Tho, has declined the Nobel Peace Prize.
5. Malala Yousafzai (17) is the youngest to win Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel-

1. The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
2. 49 Prizes in Economic Sciences have been awarded since 1969.
3. 1 woman have been awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences so far, Elinor Ostrom, in 2009.
4. 51 years was the age of the youngest Laureate in Economic Sciences ever, Kenneth J. Arrow, who was awarded in 1972.
5. 90 years was Leonid Hurwicz when he was awarded the Prize - the oldest Laureate in Economic Sciences ever.

Things to Remember

Winners of 2016 Nobel Prize in respective fields are as follows-

1. Physiology or Medicine- Yoshinori Ohsumi,
2. Physics- J. Michael Kosterlitz, Duncan Haldane, David J. Thouless,
3. Chemistry- Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Ben Feringa,
4. Literature- Bob Dylan,
5. Peace- Juan Manuel Santos,
6. Economic Sciences- Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom.

Source- nobelprize.org

List Of Nobel Prize Winners Of India

1. Nobel Prize in Literature: Rabindranath Tagore in 1913. He was also the first Asian to win the prize.
2. Nobel Prize in Physics: C. V. Raman in 1930.
3. Nobel Prize in Medicine: Har Gobind Khorana in 1968 (US citizen of Indian origin)
4. Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1979 (Indian citizen of Albanian origin)
5. Nobel Prize in Physics: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1983 (US citizen of Indian origin)
6. Nobel Prize in Economics: Amartya Sen in 1998
7. Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in 2009 (USA citizen of Indian origin)
8. Nobel Peace Prize: Kailash Satyarthi in 2014