Physiology or Medicine
Masato Hasegawa, Head of Department of Brain & Neurosciences, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan, and
Virginia Man-Yee Lee, John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer’s Research, and Director of Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
For the identification of TDP-43, a pathological signature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and for other contributions to the study of neurodegenerative diseases
Mary-Claire King, Professor of Medicine and of Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
For demonstrating inherited susceptibility for breast and ovarian cancer and discovering the role played by mutations of the BRCA1 gene
Stuart H. Orkin, David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
For foundational research on the genetic basis of blood diseases and for advancing gene therapy for sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia
Physics
Immanuel Bloch, Scientific Director, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany; Professor for Experimental Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
For ground-breaking research on quantum many-body systems using ultra-cold atomic and molecular gases, opening the way to quantum simulations of ‘artificial solids’
Stephen R. Quake, Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Redwood City, California, United States; Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
For contributions to the physics of fluid phenomena on the nanoliter scale
Takashi Taniguchi, Fellow and Director of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, and
Kenji Watanabe, Chief Researcher, Electric and Electronic Materials Field, Electroceramics Group, Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
For fabrication of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride crystals, the availability of which enabled a revolution in research on the electronic behavior of two-dimensional materials
Chemistry
Zhenan Bao, K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director, Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
For the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible ‘electronic skin’
Bonnie L. Bassler, Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and Chair of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and
E. Peter Greenberg, Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
For research on regulation of gene expression in bacteria through quorum sensing, a chemical communication system
Daniel G. Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
For fundamental experimental and theoretical contributions to proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) and its application to energy science and biology
Economics
Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and
Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship of Economics and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and
James A. Robinson, Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, and Institute Director, The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
For far-reaching analysis of the role of political and economic institutions in shaping national development
Samuel Bowles, Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States; Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and
Herbert Gintis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
For providing evidence and models that broaden our understanding of economic behavior to include not only self interest but also reciprocity, altruism, and other forms of social cooperation
Richard A. Easterlin, University Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States, and
Richard Layard, Co-Director, Community Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, and
Andrew J. Oswald, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
For pioneering contributions to the economics of happiness and subjective well-being
