Nobel Prize 2020: Complete List

Today. we're going to share the list of Nobel Prize winners of 2020. Established in1901, Nobel Prize is the world's most prestigious award given in the category of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology / Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

An important change that happened this year is that the prize amount wasraised to 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1,118,000)for each prize.

In this post, we will list the names of people in each category, the countries to which they belong, and their contribution for which they are selected for this prestigious award.

Field | Name | Country | Contribution ---------------------------------------- Field: Physics Name: Roger Penrose Country: England, UK Contribution: Proving the existence of black hole formation, if Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. --- Reinhard Genzel | Germany | Discovery of a supermassive compact object (black hole) at the center of our galaxy. Andrea Ghez | USA Field: Chemistry Name: Emmanuelle Charpentier Country: France Contribution: Discovery of the Crispr-Cas9 method for Genome Editing. --- Jennifer A. Doudna | USA Field: Medicine Name: Harvey J. Alter Country: USA Contribution: Discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. --- Michael Houghton Charles M. Rice Field: Economic Sciences Name: Paul R. Milgrom Country: USA Contribution: For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. --- Robert B. Wilson Field: Peace Name: World Food Programme (WFP) Country: Rome, Italy (HQ) Contribution: For its efforts to combat hunger in the war and conflict-affected regions especially during Corona. --- Field: Literature Name: Louise Glück Country: USA Contribution: For her unmistakable poetic voice, that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal. ---