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2019Abiy Ahmed wins the Nobel Peace PrizeNobel Peace Prize 2019Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, for ending the border conflict with Eritrea.
2019Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer win the Nobel Prize in Economic SciencesNobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2019Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
2019Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino win the Nobel Prize in ChemistryNobel Prize in Chemistry 2019John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, for developing lithium-ion batteries. Goodenough, 97, became the oldest laureate.
2019Kaelin, Ratcliffe and Semenza win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza, for discovering how cells sense and adapt to oxygen.
2019Peebles, Mayor and Queloz win the Nobel Prize in PhysicsNobel Prize in Physics 2019James Peebles for physical cosmology, and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the first exoplanet found around a Sun-like star.
2019Peter Handke wins the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNobel Prize in Literature 2019The Austrian writer Peter Handke. His selection was controversial over his support for Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars.