2016 Nobel prize winners

2016 Nobel prize winners

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology's Institute of Innovative Research.

Nationality: Japanese

Education: University of Tokyo

Field: Cell biology

Notable award: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2016)

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Born: February 9, 1945 (age 71), Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Nationality: Japanese

Education: University of Tokyo

Field: Cell biology

Notable award: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2016)

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Oliver Hart

Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016. Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart is a British-born American economist and the Andrew E. Furer Professor of

Economics at Harvard University

Born: October 9, 1948 (age 68), London, United Kingdom

Books: Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure

Nationality: American, British

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

Education: Princeton University (1974), University of Warwick (1972)

J. Michael Kosterlitz

John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz.

Born: 1942, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Field: Condensed matter physics

Institution: Brown University

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics

Alma maters: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (2016), Lars Onsager Prize (2000)

Fraser Stoddart

Professor

Sir James Fraser Stoddart FRS FRSE FRSC is a British-American who is Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head the Stoddart  Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States.

Born: May 24, 1942 (age 74), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Spouse: Norma Agnes Scholan (m. 1968–2004)

Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Arthur C. Cope Award, Davy Medal, Albert Einstein World Award of Science

Books: Stereochemistry of Carbohydrates, The Nature of the Mechanical Bond: From Molecules to Machines

Children: Alison Stoddart

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Chemist

Jean-Pierre Sauvage is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Born: October 21, 1944 (age 72), Paris, France

Education: University of Strasbourg

Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fields: Coordination complex, Supramolecular chemistry

Notable awards: French Academy of Sciences (1990), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016)

Bob Dylan

Songwriter

Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, artist, and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest.

Born: May 24, 1941 (age 75), Duluth, Minnesota, United States

Movies: Renaldo and Clara, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, more

Spouse: Carolyn Dennis (m. 1986–1992), Sara Dylan (m. 1965–1977)

Ben Feringa

Organic Chemist

Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa is a Dutch synthetic organic chemist, specializing in molecular nanotechnology and homogenous catalysis.

Born: May 18, 1951 (age 65), Barger-Compascuum, Netherlands

Nationality: Dutch

Alma mater: University of Groningen

Residence: Groningen, Netherlands

Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fields: Organic chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Photochemistry