Nobel
Prize for Economics
U.S.
economists Ben Bernanke, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Douglas
Diamond and Philip Dybvig won this year's Nobel Economics Prize for research on
how propping up failing banks can stave off an even deeper economic crisis.
Nobel Prize for Peace
Jailed Belarusian activist Ales
Byalyatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine's Center for Civil
Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize amid a war in their region that is the
worst conflict in Europe since World War Two.
Nobel Prize for Literature
French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022
Nobel Prize in Literature for "the courage and clinical acuity" in
her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social
inequality.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten
Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds
and that offer insight into cell biology.
Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser
and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments in
quantum mechanics that laid the groundwork for rapidly-developing new
applications in computing and cryptography.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine
Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the
2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that underpin our
understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the
dawn of human history.
