Nobel Prizes 2020: List of Awardee
1. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Serial No. | Name of Awardee | Basic Facts |
1. | Roger Penrose -Roger Penrose |
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2. | Reinhard Genzel |
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3. | Andrea Ghez |
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2. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
Serial No. | Name of Awardee | Basic Facts |
1. | Emmanuelle Charpentier |
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2. | Jennifer A. Doudna |
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3. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
Serial No. | Name of Awardee | Basic Facts |
1. | Harvey J. Alter |
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2. | Michael Houghton |
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3. | Charles M. Rice |
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4. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
5. The Nobel Peace Prize 2020
Serial No. | Name of Awardee | Basic Facts |
1. | World Food Programme (WFP) |
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- The World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger, promote peace in conflict-affected areas, and prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
- WFP was established in 1961 by the United Nations General Assembly and FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian organization and is funded by voluntary contributions from governments, organizations, and private individuals.
- WFP works in particular to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating poverty and hunger. In 2019, more than 100 million people suffered from severe hunger, most of them as a result of war and conflict. The worldwide Corona pandemic did also swell the number of poor and hungry. In 2019, WFP provided emergency food assistance in 88 countries, but the organization also worked in a long-term perspective to increase local production of food and to meet the nutritional needs of women and infants.
- The Norwegian Nobel Committee has previously awarded Peace Prizes for efforts that can prevent war and promote peace by combating hunger. The first one was presented in 1949 to FAO’s Director-General John Boyd Orr, and the second in 1970 to Norman Ernest Borlaug, “the father of the Green Revolution”.
6. The Prize in Economic Sciences 2020
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020
Serial No. | Name of Awardee | Basic Facts |
1. | Paul R. Milgrom |
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2. | Robert B. Wilson |
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