The Nobel Prize Medal.

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NOBEL PRIZES 2021

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

“for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”
Syukuro Manabe

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“for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”
Klaus Hasselmann

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“for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”
Giorgio Parisi

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

“for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”
Benjamin List

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“for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”
David MacMillan

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021

“for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”
David Julius

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“for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”
Ardem Patapoutian

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”
Abdulrazak Gurnah

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2021

“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”
Maria Ressa

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“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”
Dmitry Muratov

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021

“for his empirical contributions to labour economics”
David Card

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“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”
Joshua Angrist

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“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”
Guido Imbens

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