The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural or scientific advances.
- Awarded for : Outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, or physiology or medicine. Often confused with Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Country : Sweden (all prizes except the Peace Prize)
Norway (Peace Prize only)- Presented by: Swedish Academy Nobel committee of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Nobel committee of Karolinska Institute Norwegian Nobel Committee
NOBEL PRIZE 2017
| S.No. | Field | Winner | Description |
| 1 | Physics | Rainer Weiss (USA), Barry C. Barish (USA) and Kip S. Thorne (USA) | For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves |
| 2 | Chemistry | Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Joachim Frank (USA) and Richard Henderson (Scotland) | For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution |
| 3 | Physiology or Medicine | Jeffrey C. Hall (USA), Michael Rosbash (USA) and Michael W. Young (USA) | For their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm |
| 4 | Literature | Kazuo Ishiguro (Britain) | Who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world |
| 5 | Peace | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) | For its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons |
| 6 | The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel | Richard H. Thaler (USA) | For his contributions to behavioral economics |
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