NOBLE PRIZE IN 2020 Flashcards

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🏆 PHYSIOLOGY 2020

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🔷 Harvey J Alter (USA)
🔷 Charles M Rice (USA)
🔷 Michael Houghton (UK)

♦️”For the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus”

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🏆 PHYSICS 2020

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🔷 Roger Penrose (UK)-♦️ “For the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity,”
🔷 Reinhard Genzel (Germany) AND Andrea Ghez (USA)
♦️“For the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy,”

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🏆 CHEMISTRY 2020

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🔷 Emmanuelle Charpentier (France)
🔷 Jennifer A Doudna (USA)

♦️”For the development of a method for genome editing”

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🏆 LITERATURE 2020

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🔷 Louise Gluck (USA)

“For her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”

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🏆 PEACE 2020

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🔷 World Food Programme (WFP)

🔷 Headquarters : Rome, Italy

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🏆 ECONOMICS

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🔷 Paul R Milgrom (USA)
🔷 Robert B Wilson (USA)
♦️ “For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”

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