Nobel Prize Winners 2009

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.
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