2016 Nobel Prize Winners: Celebrating Academic Excellence

Nobel Prize Award 2016

Category	Recipient(s)	Country
Physics	David J. Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane, J. Michael Kosterlitz	United Kingdom, United States
Chemistry	Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Bernard L. Feringa	France, United Kingdom, Netherlands
Medicine or Physiology	Yoshinori Ohsumi	Japan
Literature	Bob Dylan	United States
Peace	Juan Manuel Santos	Colombia
Economic Sciences	Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstr�m	United Kingdom, Finland

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 2016 Nobel Prize winners were announced in October 2016. The recipients were honored for their contributions to physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, peace, and economic sciences.