- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced today. Drs. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice on Monday received the prize for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
- The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries that have bettered understanding of the universe, including work on black holes.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their 2012 work on the development of Crispr-Cas9, a method for genome editing.
- The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets.
- The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to World Food Program for its efforts to combat a surge in global hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic,
- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats — innovations that have had huge practical applications when it comes to allocating scarce resources.
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