List of Nobel Prizes and Laureates of 2020

Facts About Nobel Prize

⏩ The Nobel Prizes are the international award. The Nobel Prizes are a set of five prizes. The Nobel Prize was first conferred in the year of 1901. It is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel who was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and entrepreneur most famously known for the invention of dynamite.

Nobel Prize is administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences. The will of Alfred Nobel established five Nobel prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in the year of 1901.

From the year 1901 to 2020, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 603 times to 962 people and organisations. Each Prize of Nobel consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award.

Who is a Nobel Prize Laureate?

A person or organisation who is awarded the Nobel Prize is called Nobel Laureate. The word “laureate” refers to being signified by the laurel wreath. In ancient Greece, laurel wreaths were awarded to victors as a sign of honour.

Nobel Prize Categories:

Total Number of Prizes and Laureates from the year of 1901 to 2000 are given below:-

Nobel Prize in Physics	1901-2020: 114 prizes awarded to 216 laureates.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry	1901-2020: 112 prizes awarded to 186 laureates
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	1901-2020: 111 prizes awarded to 222 laureates.
Nobel Prize in Literature	1901-2020: 113 prizes awarded to 117 laureates.
Nobel Peace Prize	1901-2020: 101 prizes awarded to 135 laureates.
Prize in Economic Sciences	1901-2020: 52 prizes awarded to 86 laureates.

 

 

Nobel Prizes and Laureates in 2020

Nobel Prizes and Laureates in 2020
Nobel Laureates	Field or Category	Contribution
Roger Penrose	Physics	“for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”
Reinhard Genzel		“for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”
Andrea Ghez			“for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”
Emmanuelle Charpentier And Jennifer A. Doudna	Chemistry		“for the development of a method for genome editing”
Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice	Physiology or Medicine		“for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”
Louise Glück	Literature		“for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”
World Food Programme (WFP)	Peace Prize		"for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict."
Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson	Economic Sciences		“for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”

 

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