Nobel Prize 2016 Winners List

Dear Student,

Today we are presenting you a short note on winners of Nobel Prize 2016. On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest

share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace - the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Here we are representing you the winners list of Nobel Prize 2016.

Nobel Prize 2016 Winners List - At A Glance

Category	Edition	Winner(s)	Work/Contribution	Remarks
Physiology & Medicine	107th	Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan)	for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
Physics	110th	David J. Thouless (UK) F. Duncan M. Haldane (US) J. Michael Kosterlitz (UK)	for their theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.	The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was divided, one half awarded to David J. Thouless, the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz.
Chemistry	108th	Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France) Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (UK) Bernard L. Feringa (Netherlands)	for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
Peace	97th	Juan Manuel Santos (President of Colombia)	for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.	Juan Manuel Santos has decided to donate the money from the Nobel Prize to the conflict victims in Colombia.
Economic Science	48th	Oliver Hart (UK) Bengt Holmstrom (Finland)	for their contributions to contract theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests.
Literature	109th	Bob Dylan (USA)	for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition