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2024 Nobel Peace Prize
Nihon Hidankyo
Japan
for its long-standing efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through survivor testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again, as well as for its extraordinary contribution to establishing the nuclear taboo
2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
Syukuro Manabe
United States of America, Japan
for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming
2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Tasuku Honjo
Japan
for the discovery of immune-checkpoint inhibitors and their application to cancer therapy
2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Japan
for novels of great emotional force that uncover the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world
2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japan
for the discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Satoshi Ōmura
Japan
for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites
2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Takaaki Kajita
Japan
for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass (Nucl. Phys. B-Proc. Suppl. 77 (1999) 123 〈Kajita〉, 43 〈McDonald〉)
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Hiroshi Amano
Japan
for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which have enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Isamu Akasaki
Japan
for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which have enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Shuji Nakamura
United States of America, Japan
for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which have enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources
2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Shinya Yamanaka
Japan
for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Akira Suzuki
Japan
for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis
2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ei-ichi Negishi
Japan
for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis
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