Nobel Laureates 2009

Physics:
Charles K. Kao (British and US citizen. Born 1933 in Shanghai, China.) "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"

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"

Physiology or Medicine:
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 Müller "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" Prize in

Economics:
Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"

Oliver E. Williamson "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"

Source:http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/2009.html

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