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2016

Nobel Prize Winners

11 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 116th Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
11
Categories
06
Countries
07
Ceremony
116th Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

3 Laureates

Chemistry

3 Laureates

Physiology or Medicine

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Japan

for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy

Literature

1 Laureate

Bob Dylan

United States

for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition

Peace

1 Laureate

Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia

for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end

Economic Sciences

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