Nobel Prize Winner - 2009

Winner's Name	Field	Country	Work
Elizabeth Blackburn Carol Greider Jack Szostak	Medicine	USA	For the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
Charles K. Kao Willard S. Boyle George E. Smith	Physics	USA	For groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication. And the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor.
V. Ramakrishnan Thomas A. Steitz Ada E. Yonath	Chemistry	UK USA Israel	For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Barack Obama	Peace	USA	For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples
Herta Müller	Literature	Germany	For the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed
Elinor Ostrom Oliver E. Williamson	Economics	USA	For her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons. For his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm