2010 Nobel Prize Winners: Celebrating Academic Excellence

Nobel Prize Award of Year 2010

Category	Recipient(s)	Country
Physics	Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov	Russia and United Kingdom
Chemistry	Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Akira Suzuki	United States and Japan
Medicine	Robert G. Edwards	United Kingdom
Literature	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru
Peace	Liu Xiaobo	China
Economic Sciences	Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, and Christopher A. Pissarides	United States and United Kingdom

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances. The 2010 Nobel Prize winners were announced in October of that year, with awards given in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. The recipients hailed from various countries, including Russia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Peru, and China.