The Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Herta Müller, Germany "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structures and function of the ribosome"

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of hos chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

Further information from the Nobelprize at:

http://nobelprize.org