Nobel prize 2020 award comes with a gold medal and prize money of over $1,118,000. Courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine –
Dr. Harvey J. Alter
Michael Houghton and
Charles M. Rice
for discovery of Hepatitis C virus.
Nobel prize in physics –
Roger Penrose
Reinhard Genzel
Andrea M. Ghez
for improve understanding of universe and work on black hole.
Nobel prize in chemistry –
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Jennifer A. Doudna
for work in dovelopment of Crispr-cas9, a method for genome editing.
Nobel prize in literature –
Louise Gluck (poet)
For her unmistakable poetic voice with austere beauty makes individual existance universal.
Nobel prize for peace –
World Food Program
for its efforts to combat a surge in global hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has swept around the world with devastating impact.
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences-
Paul R. Milgrom
Robert B. Wilson
For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.
