2010 Nobel Prize Winners

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
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Below find the winners of the 2010 Nobel Prizes, including prizes for Peace, Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, Literature, and Economics.

  • Peace
    Liu Xiaobo (China) for "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"
  • Physiology or Medicine
    Robert G. Edwards (UK) for "for the development of in vitro fertilization"
  • Physics
    Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (both Russia) for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene"
  • Chemistry
    Richard F. Heck (U.S.), Ei-ichi Negishi (U.S.), and Akira Suzuki (Japan) for "palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
  • Literature
    Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
  • Economics Peter Diamond (U.S.), Dale T. Mortensen (U.S.), and Christopher A. Pissarides (UK) for "their analysis of markets with search frictions"
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