2009 Nobel Laureates

neha · 03-01-2010, 06:54 AM

Barack Obama (U.S.President) Won Nobel Prize in Peace "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".

Herta Muller (Germany) won the Nobel Prize in Literature "who,with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose,depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"

Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, espcially the commons"and Oliver E. Williamson "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"

Willard S. Boyle (Bell Laboratories) & George E. Smith (Bell Laboratories) are awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD Sensor".

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge,United Kingdom), Thomas A.Steitz (Yale University
New Haven,CT,USA) & Ada E.Yonath (Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot,Israel) are awarded Nobel Prizes in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

Elizabeth H.Blackburn (University of California San Francisco,CA,USA) , Carol W.Greider (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore,MD,USA) & Jack W.Szostak (Harvard Medical School,Massachusetts General Hospital,Boston,MA,USA) are awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telemeres and the enzyme telemerase"

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neha Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 152 Rep Power: 15	2009 Nobel Laureates Barack Obama (U.S.President) Won Nobel Prize in Peace "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". Herta Muller (Germany) won the Nobel Prize in Literature "who,with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose,depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, espcially the commons"and Oliver E. Williamson "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm" Willard S. Boyle (Bell Laboratories) & George E. Smith (Bell Laboratories) are awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD Sensor". Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge,United Kingdom), Thomas A.Steitz (Yale University New Haven,CT,USA) & Ada E.Yonath (Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot,Israel) are awarded Nobel Prizes in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". Elizabeth H.Blackburn (University of California San Francisco,CA,USA) , Carol W.Greider (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore,MD,USA) & Jack W.Szostak (Harvard Medical School,Massachusetts General Hospital,Boston,MA,USA) are awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telemeres and the enzyme telemerase"