Complete List Of 2009 Nobel Medal Winners
Obama may have dominated the Nobel-related headlines in the past week, for his surprising award, but there were also five other Nobel Medals given out between last Monday, and this past Monday. Check below for a full list of winners, and for the official descriptions of why these people received their much-coveted awards from the Nobel Foundation.
October.14.2009 - George Valentine Corr, Blatant News Editor
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Nobel Prize Announcements 2009:
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Physics: Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle & George E. Smith... "the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging"
Chemistry: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz & Ada E. Yonath... "for uncovering the structure of the ribosome"
Medicine: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider & Jack W. Szostak... "for discovering how chromosomes meet their ends"
Literature: Herta Muller... "whose writings in German chronicle, with honesty and poetry, life under the dictatorship in her Romanian homeland"
Peace: Barack Obama... "for his efforts to strengthen cooperation between peoples to meet global challenges"
Economics: Elinor Ostrom & Oliver E. Williamson... "who both analyse economic transactions occurring outside the markets"
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