Nobel Prize Winners 2019 in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics, Peace and Literature

Nobel Prize 2019 – Full list of Winners

in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics, Peace and Literature

The Nobel Foundation has declared the list of 15 eminent personalities as the winners for 2019, for their individual contributions in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology (or Medicine), Economics, Peace and Literature.

All About the Nobel Prize

• Nobel winners are given a medal, a certificate and a cash award of about $900,000 (when multiple people win a single Nobel, they typically split the cash award.)
• The awards are instituted by the Nobel Foundation based on the recommendations from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Nobel Prize in Economics, Physics and Chemistry, Karolinska Institute for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Swedish Academy for Literature, and a Committee of five persons elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) for the Peace Prize.
• First established in 1895 at the will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Annual awards are given in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics.
• From 1901 till 2018, 908 laureates and 27 organisations have received the Nobel Prize.
• All the Prize except Peace Prize awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. Peace Prize awarded in Oslo, Norway.
• Youngest Nobel Laureate (17-years): Malala Yousafzai for Peace in 2014.
• Oldest Nobel Laureate (97-years): John B. Goodenough for Chemistry in 2019.

Full list of the 2019 Nobel Prize winners

2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza won the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The trio identified molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying levels of oxygen. Their work has paved the way for promising new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and many other diseases.

2019 Nobel Prize in Physics

James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics. Peebles, of Princeton University, received half of the award, for work focused on “theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology,” while Mayor and Queloz, of the University of Geneva (and, for Queloz, Cambridge University) shared half the award for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.

2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The three scientists have all worked to develop and advance lithium-ion batteries, now-ubiquitous technology which the Nobel Assembly said has laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil fuel-free society.

2019 Prize in Economic Sciences

A trio of economists, Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Prof Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their experimental approach (viz. randomized controlled trials) to alleviating global poverty.

Esther Duflo, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the youngest person to win the economics prize and also only the second-ever woman to receive the prize.

2019 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his internal reforms work to bring an end to a long-running border dispute between his country and neighboring Eritrea.

2019 & 2018 Nobel Prizes in Literature

Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”.

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life,” the Assembly said.

Indians Nobel laureates

• 12 Indians (5 Indian citizens and 7 overseas persons of Indian origin) have been awarded Nobel Prize in various categories.
• The first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore for his works “Gitanjali” in 1913.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics was C. V. Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him” in 1930.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize for Peace was Mother Teresa in 1979.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics was Amartya Sen in 1998.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was Har Gobind Khorana for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis in 1968.
• First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry was Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome in 2009.
• The only woman from India in the list of Nobel Prize recipient is Mother Teresa.