Norway

Jon Fosse

Norway

for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable

May-Britt Moser

Norway

for the discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

Edvard I. Moser

Norway

for the discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

Erik Nasset

Norway

Finn Kydland

Norway

for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles

スヴェレ・フェーン

Norway

Trygve Haavelmo

Norway

for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures

ヨハン・ガルトゥング

Norway

/ Future in Our Hands

Norway

Odd Hassel

Norway

for the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry

Ragnar Frisch

Norway

for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes

Lars Onsager

United States of America, Norway

for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes

Atle Selberg,

Norway

Developed generalizations of thesieve methodsofViggo Brun; achieved major results on zeros of theRiemann zeta function; gave an elementary proof of theprime number theorem(withP. Erdős), with a generalization to prime numbers in an arbitraryarithmetic progression.

Sigrid Undset

Norway (Denmark)

principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages

Fridtjof Nansen

Norway

for his leading role in the repatriation of prisoners of war and the relief of famine refugees

Christian Lous Lange

Norway

for serving as Secretary-General of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Knut Hamsun

Norway

for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Norway

as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit