Nobel 2009 winners

Nobel 2009 winners


The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895. It is awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace since 1901.-images and achievements of the Nobel Prize winners 2009.

University of California, Berkeley professor Oliver Williamson speaks during a news conference at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California. American Oliver Williamson shared the Nobel Prize in economics with Elinor Ostrom for their analysis of economic governance. Elinor Ostrom also celebrated winning the Nobel Prize in economics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Ostrom, a U.S. academic who proved that communities can trump state control and corporations became the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics sharing it with an expert on conflict resolution...

Australian-born Elizabeth Blackburn (L) smiles as a picture is taken at the University of California, San Francisco. Blackburn along with two other Americans won the Nobel prize in medicine for discovering and identifying telomerase, the enzymen that renews the little caps on the end of chromosomes whose natural fraying underlies aging and cancer.–

Molecular biologist Jack Szostak, a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine enters a room to address the media at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Szostak, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Carol Greider were named winners for research that has implications for cancer and aging research.–AP Photo

Nobel Prize winner George Smith is photographed at his home in Waretown, New Jersey. A pioneer in fibre optics and two scientists who figured out how to turn light into electronic signals work that paved the way for the Internet age were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics. Smith, who is from the United States, shares his prize with Willard Boyle, a Canadian-American, for inventing the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor.–Reuter Photo

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Willard Boyle and his wife Betty sit in the lobby of his condominium building in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Boyle shared one half of the prize with George Smith for their work in digital sensor technology. The second half of the prize was won by Charles Kao for his work in fibre-optics.–Reuter Photo

 Charles Kao, former head of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, smiles during an interview in Hong Kong. Kao, a pioneer in fibre-optics, and two scientists who figured out how to turn light into electronic signals work that paved the way for the Internet age were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics. Kao, a Shanghai-born British-American, won half the prize for research that led to a breakthrough in fiber-optics, determining how to transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibres.–

 Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Thomas A. Steitz, stands in a lab in the Bass Center at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. Steitz, along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada E. Yonath won the prize for their work describing ribosomes and how they function to produce chemistry controlling proteins on an atomic level.–AFP Photo

 Israeli chemist and Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath (C) is greeted by her daughter Hagit and granddaughter Noa during a press conference at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Ada Yonath, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz were elevated from the ranks of modest leaders of research teams to Nobel laureates for their work on ribosomes, the body's protein factories

 Joint winner of the 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, sits in his lab at the Medical Research Council Lab in Cambridge, England. Ramakrishnan with Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry or mapping ribosomes, one of the cell's most complex components, at the atomic level.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work has been fundamental to the scientific understanding of life and has helped researchers develop antibiotics cures for various diseases.

 German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,' the Swedish Academy said.–

  President Barack Obama spoke about being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. ‘Let me be clear. I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations,’ he said.–Reuter Photo