2019 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

John B. Goodenough

for the development of lithium-ion batteries

M. Stanley Whittingham

for the development of lithium-ion batteries

Akira Yoshino

for the development of lithium-ion batteries

Economic Sciences

Abhijit Banerjee

for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty

Esther Duflo

for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty

Michael Kremer

for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty

Literature

Peter Handke

for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience

Peace

Abiy Ahmed Ali

for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea

Physics

James Peebles

for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology

Michel Mayor

for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star

Didier Queloz

for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star

Physiology or Medicine

William G. Kaelin Jr

for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability

Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe

for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability

Gregg L. Semenza

for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability