2018 Nobel Prizes

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! colspan="5" |Awardee(s)

|Arthur Ashkin

(1922–2020)

|{{flagdeco|United States}} American

|"for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems"

| rowspan="3" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/summary/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504112438/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/summary/ |archive-date=4 May 2024 |access-date=2 October 2018 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

|Gérard Mourou

(b. 1944)

|{{flagdeco|France|1974}} French

| rowspan="2" |"for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"

|Donna Strickland

(b. 1959)

|{{flagdeco|Canada}} Canadian

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|Frances Arnold

(b. 1956)

| rowspan="2" |{{flagdeco|United States}} American

|"for the directed evolution of enzymes"

| rowspan="3" |Press Release: [https://old.nobelprize.org/che-press.pdf?_ga=2.67876817.1135025470.1538548911-1481862404.1538548911 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003142015/https://old.nobelprize.org/che-press.pdf?_ga=2.67876817.1135025470.1538548911-1481862404.1538548911|date=3 October 2018}}

|George Smith

(b. 1941)

| rowspan="2" |"for the phage display of peptides and antibodies"

|Sir Gregory Winter

(b. 1951)

|{{flagdeco|United Kingdom}} British

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|James P. Allison

(b. 1948)

|{{flag|United States}}

| rowspan="2" |"for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation"

| rowspan="2" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2018/summary/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001101624/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2018/summary/ |archive-date=1 October 2018 |access-date=2 October 2017 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

|Tasuku Honjo

(b. 1942)

|{{flag|Japan}}

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|Olga Tokarczuk

(b. 1962)

|{{flag|Poland}}

|"for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"

|{{cite web |title=Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2018/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601144832/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018/summary/ |archive-date=2020-06-01 |access-date=2019-10-10 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

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|Denis Mukwege

(b. 1955)

|{{Flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}

| rowspan="2" |"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."

| rowspan="2" |{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 - Press Release |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2018/summary |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005104610/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2018/press-release/ |archive-date=2018-10-05 |access-date=2018-10-05 |website=www.nobelprize.org}}

|Nadia Murad

(b. 1993)

|{{Flag|Iraq}}

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|William Nordhaus

(b. 1941)

| rowspan="2" |{{flag|United States}}

|"for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis"

| rowspan="2" |{{cite web |title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2018/ |access-date=2018-10-08 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

|Paul Romer

(b. 1955)

|"for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis"