2016 Nobel Prize

11

laureates

6

fields

2016

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

David J. Thouless
David J. Thouless

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Duncan Haldane
Duncan Haldane

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, SloveniaSlovenia

Michael Kosterlitz
Michael Kosterlitz

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Jean-Pierre Sauvage

FranceFrance

Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Ben Feringa
Ben Feringa

NetherlandsNetherlands

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for the discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy

Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi

JapanJapan

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

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

Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

2016 Nobel Peace Prize

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

Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos

ColombiaColombia

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for their contributions to contract theory

Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Bengt Holmström
Bengt Holmström

FinlandFinland