# | Field | Winners | Contribution |
---|---|---|---|
1. | Medicine | William G. Kaelin Jr | for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. |
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe | |||
Gregg L. Semenza | |||
2. | Chemistry | John B. Goodenough | for the development of lithium-ion batteries. |
M Stanley Whittingham | |||
Akira Yoshino | |||
3. | Physics | James Peebles | for theoritical discoveries in physical cosmology. |
Michel Mayor | for discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar type star | ||
Didier Queloz | |||
4. | Peace | Abey Ahmed Ali (PM of Ethiopia) | for his important work to promote reconciliation, solidarity and social justice.. |
5. | Literature 2019 | Peter Handke | for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience |
6. | Literature 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life |