Peace
Barack Obama
He is the current President of the USA. He was awarded for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.

Chemistry
1. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, He is a structural biologist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council located in Cambridge, England. He has Citizenship of United States.
2. Thomas A. Steitz
He is a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University in the USA
3. Ada E. Yonath
She is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. She is the director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Bio molecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Literature
Herta Müller (German)
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She is a German novelist, born in Romanian. She has been awarded for her poetic and prose writings. She writes about the hardships faced under Communist Romania.

Physics
1. Charles Kao
A Chinese physicist who proposed using fiber optics in telecommunications
2. Willard Boyle
He is a Canadian physicist who co-invented the charge-coupled device (CCDs) used in digitizing images (scanners, cameras etc use CCDs).
3. George Smith
He is an American scientist who co-invented CCDs with Willard Boyle at Bell Labs in 1969.
Medicine
1. Elizabeth Blackburn:
Australia born American Scientist. She Conducted ground-breaking research on DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and cell division that has provided a new line of inquiry into the chemical bases of life.
2. Carol W Greider
An Americam molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University. She helped co-discover telomerase, an enzyme that maintains the length and integrity of telomeres.
3. Jack W. Szostak
London born Canadian A biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He was awarded for his contributions to the field of genetics.