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2019, Nobel Prize Winner

Sl. No Disciplines Winner Contribution
1. Physics
  • James Peebles
  • Michel Mayer
  • Didier Queloz
 For Contributions to our understanding of the evoluting of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.
2. Chemistry
  • John B. Goodenough M.
  • Stanley Whittingham
  • Akira Yoshino
 For the development of lithium-ion batteries.
3. Physiology or Medicine
  • William G. Kaelin Jr
  • Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe
  • Gregg L. Semenza
 For their discoveries of how cells sense and adopt to oxygen availability.
4. Literature
  • Peter Handke
 For an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explosed the periphery and the specificity of human experience.
5. Peace
  • World Food Programme (WFP)
 For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
6. Economics
  • Paul R. Milgrom
  • Robert B. Wilson
 For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.
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