2019 Nobel Prizes
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The 2019 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.{{Cite web |title=All Nobel Prizes 2019 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/all-nobel-prizes-2019/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Alex |date=2019-10-07 |title=Here Are All the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners |url=https://time.com/5694094/nobel-prize-winners-2019/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}
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 in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2019/award-video/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Peluchetti |first=Nicola |date=2019-12-10 |title=Video - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2019 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-2019/#:~:text=The%20Nobel%20Prize%20award%20ceremony%20takes%20place%20at%20the%20Stockholm,anniversary%20of%20Alfred%20Nobel's%20death. |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Prizes
= Physics =
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(b. 1935) |{{flagdeco|Canada}} Canadian {{flagdeco|United States}} American |"for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" | rowspan="3" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504102129/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/ |archive-date=4 May 2024 |access-date=8 October 2019 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}} |
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(b. 1942) | rowspan="2" |{{flagdeco|Switzerland}} Swiss | rowspan="2" |"for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star" |
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(b. 1966) |
= Chemistry =
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(1922–2023) |{{flagdeco|United States}} American | rowspan="3" |"for the development of lithium ion batteries" |
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(b. 1941) |{{flagdeco|United Kingdom}} British {{flagdeco|United States}} American |
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(b. 1948) |{{flagdeco|Japan}} Japanese |
= Physiology or Medicine =
= Literature =
{{Main page|2019 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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(b. 1942) |{{flag|Austria}} |"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience" |
= Peace =
{{Main page|2019 Nobel Peace Prize}}
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(b. 1976) |{{Flag|Ethiopia}} |"for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea." |
= Economic Sciences =
{{Main page|2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences}}
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(b. 1961) |{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="3" |"for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty" |
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(b. 1972) |{{flag|France}} {{flag|United States}} |
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(b. 1964) |{{flag|United States}} |
Controversies
= Chemistry =
Some questioned the Chemistry Prize's awarding to three scientists without award or acknowledgement to Rachid Yazami, a scientist whose research on the lithium-ion battery was similarly crucial to those recognized.{{Cite web |last=Spurgeon |first=Susanna |title=Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Scientists, Omits Rachid Yazami |url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/10/284390/chemistry-nobel-lithium-battery-scientists-rachid-yazami |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=www.moroccoworldnews.com |language=en}}
= Literature =
Handke's awarding of the Literature Prize was scrutinized for his historic denying of the Bosnian genocide, as well as his affinity for Slobodan Milošević.{{cite news |last=Flood |first=Allison |date=6 December 2019 |title='Ignorant questions': Nobel winner Peter Handke refuses to address controversy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/06/peter-handke-questions-nobel-prize-literature-milosevic |access-date=28 June 2022 |work=The Guardian}}{{cite web |last1=Cain |first1=Sian |date=10 October 2019 |title='A troubling choice': authors criticise Peter Handke's controversial Nobel win |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/troubling-choice-authors-criticise-peter-handke-controversial-nobel-win |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=The Guardian}} Several authors, historians, and organizations, including PEN International condemned the Nobel Foundation's decision.{{cite web |date=11 October 2019 |title=Slavoj Žižek, Salman Rushdie, američki i britanski P.E.N. osudili izbor Petera Handkea, austrijski predsjednik Alexander Van der Bellen smatra da 'imamo još puno toga naučiti od Handkea' |url=https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/kultura/slavoj-zizek-nbsp-salman-rushdie-americki-i-britanski-p-e-n-osudili-izbor-petera-handkea-austrijski-predsjednik-strong-strong-alexander-van-der-bellen-smatra-da-39-imamo-jos-puno-toga-nauciti-od-handkea-39-627595 |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=slobodnadalmacija.hr |publisher=Slobodna Dalmacija |language=hr-hr}}{{cite web |date=11 October 2019 |title=Outrage in Bosnia, Kosovo over Peter Handke's Nobel prize win |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/outrage-bosnia-kosovo-peter-handke-nobel-prize-win-191010183645296.html |access-date=28 June 2022 |publisher=Al Jazeera}}{{cite web |author=Deborah E. Lipstadt |author-link=Deborah E. Lipstadt |date=18 October 2019 |title=Opinion – Peter Handke, an Undeserving Nobel Laureate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/letters/peter-handke-nobel.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018195004/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/letters/peter-handke-nobel.html |archive-date=18 October 2019 |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=The New York Times}} Additionally, the governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Turkey issued condemnations against the award, and the ambassadors from Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Turkey boycotted the award ceremony.{{cite news |date=7 December 2019 |title=Kosovo to boycott Nobel ceremony over Handke's literature prize |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/kosovo-boycott-nobel-ceremony-handke-literature-prize-191207143607923.html |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=Al Jazeera}}{{cite news |date=11 December 2019 |title=Nobel-winning author Handke declared 'persona non grata' in Sarajevo |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bosnia-handke-ban/nobel-winning-author-handke-declared-persona-non-grata-in-sarajevo-idUSKBN1YF1Y8 |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=Reuters}}