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2019 Nobel Prizes

The 2019 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.[1][2]

Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.[3][4]

Prizes

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Physics

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Awardee(s)
  James Peebles

(b. 1935)

  Canadian

  American

"for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" [5]
  Michel Mayor

(b. 1942)

  Swiss "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"
  Didier Queloz

(b. 1966)

Chemistry

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Awardee(s)
  John B. Goodenough

(1922–2023)

  American "for the development of lithium ion batteries" [6]
  M. Stanley Whittingham

(b. 1941)

  British

  American

  Akira Yoshino

(b. 1948)

  Japanese

Physiology or Medicine

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Awardee(s)
  William Kaelin Jr.

(b. 1957)

  United States "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability" [7]
  Peter J. Ratcliffe

(b. 1954)

  United Kingdom
  Gregg L. Semenza

(b. 1956)

  United States

Literature

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Main article: 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature
Awardee(s)
  Peter Handke

(b. 1942)

  Austria "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience" [8]

Peace

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Main article: 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
Awardee(s)
  Abiy Ahmed

(b. 1976)

  Ethiopia "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea." [9]

Economic Sciences

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Main article: 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Awardee(s)
  Abhijit Banerjee

(b. 1961)

  United States "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty" [10]
  Esther Duflo

(b. 1972)

  France

  United States

  Michael Kremer

(b. 1964)

  United States

Controversies

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Chemistry

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Some questioned the Chemistry Prize's awarding to three scientists without award or acknowledgement to Rachid Yazami, a scientist whose research on the lithium-ion battery was similarly crucial to those recognized.[11]

Literature

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Handke's awarding of the Literature Prize was scrutinized for his historic denying of the Bosnian genocide, as well as his affinity for Slobodan Milošević.[12][13] Several authors, historians, and organizations, including PEN International condemned the Nobel Foundation's decision.[13][14][15][15][16] Additionally, the governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Turkey issued condemnations against the award, and the ambassadors from Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Turkey boycotted the award ceremony.[15][17][18]

References

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  1. ^ "All Nobel Prizes 2019". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  2. ^ Fitzpatrick, Alex (2019-10-07). "Here Are All the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners". TIME. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  3. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2019". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  4. ^ Peluchetti, Nicola (2019-12-10). "Video - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2019". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  5. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 May 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  6. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 December 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  7. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 23 May 2020. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  8. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  9. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2019". The Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  10. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  11. ^ Spurgeon, Susanna. "Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Scientists, Omits Rachid Yazami". www.moroccoworldnews.com. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  12. ^ Flood, Allison (6 December 2019). "'Ignorant questions': Nobel winner Peter Handke refuses to address controversy". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  13. ^ a b Cain, Sian (10 October 2019). "'A troubling choice': authors criticise Peter Handke's controversial Nobel win". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  14. ^ "Slavoj Žižek, Salman Rushdie, američki i britanski P.E.N. osudili izbor Petera Handkea, austrijski predsjednik Alexander Van der Bellen smatra da 'imamo još puno toga naučiti od Handkea'". slobodnadalmacija.hr (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  15. ^ a b c "Outrage in Bosnia, Kosovo over Peter Handke's Nobel prize win". Al Jazeera. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  16. ^ Deborah E. Lipstadt (18 October 2019). "Opinion – Peter Handke, an Undeserving Nobel Laureate". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  17. ^ "Kosovo to boycott Nobel ceremony over Handke's literature prize". Al Jazeera. 7 December 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  18. ^ "Nobel-winning author Handke declared 'persona non grata' in Sarajevo". Reuters. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
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