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Noble Prize Winner 2017:
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#NoblePrizePhysics
Rainer Weiss( Berlin, Germany),
Barry C. Barish(Omaha, NE, USA) and
Kip S. Thorne(Logan, UT, USA)
("for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves")


#NoblePrizeChemistry
Jacques Dubochet(Aigle, Switzerland),
Joachim Frank( Siegen, Germany) and
Richard Henderson(Edinburgh, Scotland)
("for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution")


#NoblePrizePhysiology
Jeffrey C. Hall(New York, NY, USA,
Michael Rosbash(Kansas City, MO, USA) and
Michael W. Young(Miami, FL, USA)
("for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm")


#NoblePrizeLiterature
Kazuo Ishiguro(Nagasaki, Japan)
("who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world")


#NoblePrizePeace
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)---Founded: 2007 in Australia
("for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons")


#NoblePrizeEconomics
Richard H. Thaler(East Orange, NJ, USA)
("for his contributions to behavioural economics")