2016 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart

for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Bernard L. Feringa

for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Economic Sciences

Oliver Hart

for their contributions to contract theory

Bengt Holmström

for their contributions to contract theory

Literature

Bob Dylan

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

Peace

Juan Manuel Santos

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

Physics

David J. Thouless

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

F. Duncan M. Haldane

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

J. Michael Kosterlitz

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

Physiology or Medicine

Yoshinori Ohsumi

for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy