The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov | Source: Twitter/The Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded jointly to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) โ€œfor 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.โ€

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded โ€œfor groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systemsโ€ with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann โ€œfor the physical modeling of Earthโ€™s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warmingโ€ and the other half to Giorgio Parisi โ€œfor the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.โ€

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan โ€œfor the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.โ€ย Benjamin Listย andย David MacMillanย are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 because in 2000 they, independent of each other, developed a third type of catalysis. It is calledย asymmetric organocatalysisย and builds upon small organic molecules.

The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor (more than USD 1.14 million), courtesy of a bequest left by the prizeโ€™s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel who died in 1895.


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