The2017 Nobel Prizes were awarded by theNobel Foundation, based inSweden. Six categories were awarded:Physics,Chemistry,Physiology or Medicine,Literature,Peace, andEconomic Sciences.[1]
Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled inOslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day inStockholm.[2][3]
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.jpg) | Rainer Weiss (b. 1932) |  American | "for decisive contributions to theLIGO detector and the observation ofgravitational waves" | [4] |
 | Kip Thorne (b. 1940) | |||
 | Barry Barish (b. 1936) | |||
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.jpg) | Jacques Dubochet (b. 1942) |  Swiss | "for developingcryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution" | [5] |
.jpg) | Joachim Frank (b. 1940) |  German
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.jpg) | Richard Henderson (b. 1945) |  British | ||
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|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Jeffrey C. Hall (b. 1945) | United States | "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling thecircadian rhythm" | [7] |
.jpg) | Michael Rosbash (b. 1944) | |||
.jpg) | Michael W. Young (b. 1949) | |||
| Awardee(s) | ||||
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.jpg) | Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954) | United Kingdom (born inJapan) | "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world" | [8] |
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (founded 2007) | Switzerland | "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons." | [9] |
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 | Richard Thaler (b. 1945) | United States | "for his contributions tobehavioural economics" | [10] |