Nobel Prize Winners List 2019

Nobel Prizes 2019

Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology 2019 - 

William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe & Gregg L. Semenza  - for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 - 

James Peebles - for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology, 

Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz - for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019- 

Akira Yoshino, M. Stanley Whittingham & John B. Goodenough - for the development of lithium-ion batterie.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 -  

Peter Handke - for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience

Nobel Peace Prize 2019 -  

Abiy Ahmed Ali - for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2019 -  


Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Michael Kremer - for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.


Nobel Prize Fact’s:

● Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and for work in peace. In 1968, economic sciences added to the the list of fields.

● The Nobel Laureates are announced at the beginning of October each year.

● A couple of months later, on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, they receive their prizes from the Swedish King – a Nobel diploma, a medal, and 10 million Swedish crowns per prize.

● All Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the Nobel Peace Prize.

● Only Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

● Between 1901 and 2019, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 597 times.

● 923 Laureates and 27 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2019.

● The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 100 times to 134 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2019 – 107 times to individuals and 27 times to organizations.

● Only 54 Nobel Prizes to women (Between 1901 and 2019) !

● Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and the youngest (Age 17) ever Nobel Prize laureate in 2014.



Indian Nobel Laureates:

• Kailash Satyarthi - Nobel Peace Prize in 2014

For their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education

• Amartya Sen - Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998

Prof. Amartya Sen is the first Asian to have been honoured with the Nobel Prize for Economics.

• Subramanian Chandrashekhar - Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983

• Mother Teresa - Nobel Peace Prize in 1979

• Hargobind Khorana - Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968

His major breakthrough in the field of Medicine - interpreting the genetic code and analysing its function in protein synthesis - fetched him the Nobel Prize.

• Chandrashekhar Venkataraman - Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930

India's first Nobel Prize for Physics was claimed in 1930 by the renowned physicist Sir C.V. Raman.
Sir C.V. Raman received the Nobel Prize for an important optics research - what is now popularly known as Raman Effect.

• Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel Prize for Literature(साहित्य) in 1913

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian ever to receive a Nobel Prize.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems, in 1913.