2010 Nobel Prize Winners
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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