2017 Nobel Prize Winners: Celebrating Academic Excellence

Nobel Prize Award 2017

Category	Recipient(s)	Country
Physics	Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne	United States
Chemistry	Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson	Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Medicine or Physiology	Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young	United States
Literature	Kazuo Ishiguro	United Kingdom
Peace	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)	International
Economic Sciences	Richard H. Thaler	United States

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 2017 Nobel Prize winners were announced in October of that year. The recipients were recognized for their contributions to physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, peace, and economic sciences.