2021

Nobel Prize Winners

13 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 121st Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates

13

Categories

06

Countries

07

Ceremony

121st Ceremony

Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

3 LaureatesAll Physics

Syukuro Manabe

“for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”

Klaus Hasselmann

“for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”

Giorgio Parisi

“for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

Chemistry

2 LaureatesAll Chemistry

Benjamin List

“for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

David W.C. MacMillan

“for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

Physiology or Medicine

2 LaureatesAll Physiology or Medicine

David Julius

“for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

Ardem Patapoutian

“for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

Literature

1 LaureateAll Literature

Abdulrazak Gurnah

“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”

Peace

2 LaureatesAll Peace

Maria Ressa

“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”

Dmitri Muratov

“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”

Economic Sciences

3 LaureatesAll Economic Sciences

Joshua D. Angrist

“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

David Card

“for his empirical contributions to labour economics”

Guido W. Imbens

“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

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