NOBLE PRIZE 2009

Physiology or Medicine
Elizabeth H. Blackburn ,Carol W. Greider & Jack W. Szostak
"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
Chemistry
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ,Thomas A. Steitz & Ada E. Yonath
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Peace Prize
Barack obama
"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

Physics
Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle & George E. Smith
"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"
& "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"
Literature
Herta Müller
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009
Elinor Ostrom & Oliver E. Williamson
"for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"
"for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"