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Nobel Laureates 2008
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Physics:
Yoichiro Nambu
"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
Makoto Kobayashi
and
Toshihide Maskawa
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
Chemistry:
Osamu Shimomura
,
Martin Chalfie
and
Roger Y. Tsien
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Physiology or Medicine:
Harald zur Hausen
"for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
and
Luc Montagnier
"for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"
Literature:
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"
Peace:
Martti Ahtisaari
"for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"
Prize in Economics:
Paul Krugman
"for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"
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