THE NOBEL PRIZES 2020

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 THE NOBEL PRIZES 2020

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• The Nobel Prize
• “to those who,  during the  preceding year, shall  have conferred
• the greatest benefit  to humankind”
• Alfred Nobel  (1833-1896)
• The 2020 Physics Prize
• The prize rewards researchers for their  discoveries about one of the strangest  phenomena in the universe: black holes.
• The 2020 Physics Laureates
• 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”
• Black holes
• Black holes are incredibly heavy and  compact objects.
• 2020 Chemistry Prize
• The prize is awarded for the discovery of  one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the  CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.
• The 2020 Chemistry Laureates
• "for the development  of a method for  genome editing“
• Unlimited possibilities – but also risks
• Jennifer A. Doudna,  one of the laureates,  holding a model of  the genetic scissors.  The laureates’  discovery offers  hope of curing  serious diseases.
• 2020 Medicine Prize
• The prize is awarded for pioneering  research that led to the discovery of a new  virus that causes the disease hepatitis.
• The 2020 Medicine Laureates
• For the discovery of  Hepatitis C virus”
• 2020 Literature Laureate
• Louise Glück  Born: 1943, USA
• "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with  austere beauty makes individual existence  universal“
• From the poem “Snowdrops”
• I did not expect to survive,
• earth suppressing me. I didn’t expect  to waken again, to feel
• in damp earth my body
• able to respond again, remembering  after so long how to open again
• in the cold light
• of earliest spring –
• Straightforward and deep at the same time
• Louise Glück engages with timeless topics  such as isolation, relationships and the  confrontation with death.
• 2020 Peace Laureate
• World Food Programme (WFP)  Founded in 1961.
• ”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”
• Supports 100 million people in more than 80 countries
• WFP is the the  world’s largest  humanitarian  organisation  working to eliminate  hunger.
• Link to peace?
• Efforts to fight  hunger can also  contribute to peace  and security.
• 2020 Economic Sciences Prize
• The prize is awarded for research that has  contributed new ways to use auctions that  benefit sellers, buyers and taxpayers  around the world.
• 2020 Economic Sciences Laureates
• for improvements  to auction theory  and inventions of  new auction  formats“
• Better auctions in practice
• The laureates have  not only devoted  themselves to  auction theory; they  have also invented  new auction  formats.
• Awarding the Nobel Prize
• On 10 December each year, the Nobel Prize  is presented.

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