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Nobel Prize Winners

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13 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 118th Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates

Physics

3 LaureatesAll Physics

Arthur Ashkin

United States

“for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”

Gérard Mourou

France

“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”

Donna Strickland

Canada

“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”

Chemistry

3 LaureatesAll Chemistry

Frances H. Arnold

United States

“for the directed evolution of enzymes”

George P. Smith

United States

“for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”

Sir Gregory P. Winter

United Kingdom

“for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”

Physiology or Medicine

2 LaureatesAll Physiology or Medicine

James P. Allison

United States

“for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”

Tasuku Honjo

Japan

“for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”

Literature

1 LaureateAll Literature

Olga Tokarczuk

Poland

“for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”

Peace

2 LaureatesAll Peace

Denis Mukwege

Belgium

“for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”

Nadia Murad Basee

Iraq

“for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”

Economic Sciences

2 LaureatesAll Economic Sciences

William D. Nordhaus

United States

“for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis”

Paul M. Romer

United States

“for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis”

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