Nobel prize winners 2021
Nobel Prize Category | Nobel prize Winners |
Physiology or Medicine | David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian |
Physics | Syukuro Manebe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi |
Chemistry | Benjamin List and David W.C. Macmillan |
literature | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
Peace | Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov |
Economic sciences | David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens |
Physiology or Medicine
In the field of Physiology or Medicine the prize was jointly given to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
Chemistry
In the field of Chemistry The prize was jointly give to Benjamin List and David W.C. Macmillan for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.
Physics
In the field of physics the prize was jointly given to Syukuro Manebe and Klaus Hasselmann for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming and to Giorgio Parisi for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.
Literature
In the field of Literature the prize was given to Abdulrazak Gurnah for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.
Peace
In the field of Peace the prize was jointly given to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.
Economic Sciences
In the field of Economic Sciences the prize was jointly given to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships and David Card for his empirical contributions to labour economics.