2020 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier

for the development of a method for genome editing

Jennifer A. Doudna

for the development of a method for genome editing

Economic Sciences

Paul R. Milgrom

for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats

Robert B. Wilson

for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats

Literature

Louise Glück

for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal

Peace

World Food Programme

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

Physics

Roger Penrose

for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity

Reinhard Genzel

for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy

Andrea Ghez

for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy

Physiology or Medicine

Harvey J. Alter

for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus

Michael Houghton

for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus

Charles M. Rice

for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus