Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna: For the development of a method for genome editing

Literature

Louise Glück: For her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal

Peace

World Food Programme: For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict

Physics

Roger Penrose: For the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity

Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez: For the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy

Physiology or Medicine

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice: For the discovery of Hepatitis C virus

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