2017 Noble Prize Winner’s List

Category	Winners & Prize Share	Recognition For

Physics	Rainer Weiss (Prize Share: 1/2)	for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
	Barry C. Barish (Prize Share: 1/4)
	Kips S. Thorne (Prize Share: 1/4)
Chemistry	Jacques Dubochet (Prize Share: 1/3)	for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
	Joachim Frank (Prize Share: 1/3)
	Richard Henderson (Prize Share: 1/3)
Medicine/Physiology	Jeffrey C. Hall (Prize Share: 1/3)	for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
	Michael Rosbah (Prize Share: 1/3)
	Michael W. Young (Prize Share: 1/3)
Literature	Kazuo Ishigoru (Prize Share: 1/1)	who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world
Peace	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)“ (Prize Share: 1/1)	For its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapon’s.
Economic Sciences	Richard H. Thaler	“for his contributions to behavioural economics”