2008 Nobel Prize Winners

Martti Ahtisaari, peace broker and former President of Finland, in Berlin. Mr Ahtisaari was awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

The award came 24 hours after French author Jean-Marie Le Clézio won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize.

Yoichiro Nambu, the University of Chicago physics professor, at his home in Chicago after learning he had won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics.


Japanese scientists Makoto Kobayashi, right, and Toshihide Maskawa, in Tokyo on Friday. The two shared the physics prize with Yoichiro Nambu.

Cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen displaying pictures of viruses in his laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

French scientists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi after meeting President Sarkozy in Paris. They received the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the HIV virus in 1983.

Martin Chalfie, of Columbia University, after winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shared the award with Roger Tsien for their work on the green fluorescent protein first found in jellyfish.

Roger Tsien answers congratulatory emails in his office at the University of California, San Diego, after learning that he was sharing the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Osamu Shimomura, a Japanese researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, was also awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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Prize Awarder for the Nobel Prize

Prize Awarder for the Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for the selection of the Nobel Laureates in Physics. The Academy has 350 Swedish and 164 foreign members. Membership in the Academy constitutes exclusive recognition of successful research achievements. The Academy appoints members of the Nobel Committee, the working body, for a three-year term.

Prize Awarder for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for the selection of the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. The Academy has 350 Swedish and 164 foreign members. Membership in the Academy constitutes exclusive recognition of successful research achievements. The Academy appoints members of the Nobel Committee, the working body, for a three-year term.

Prize Awarder for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet is responsible for selecting the Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine. The Assembly has 50 voting members and is composed of professors in medical subjects at Karolinska Institutet. Its working body is the Nobel Committee, elected from among its members for a three-year term.

Prize Awarder for the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish Academy is reponsible for choosing the Nobel Laureates in Literature. The Academy is composed of 18 members whose tenure is for life. Known as De Aderton (The Eighteen), current members of the Academy include distinguished Swedish writers, linguists, literary scholars, historians and a prominent jurist. Its working body is the Nobel Committee, elected from among its members for a three-year term.

Prize Awarder for the Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. The Committee is composed of five members appointed by the Storting (Norwegain Parliament). The Committee's composition reflects the relative strengths of the political parties in the Storting, and is assisted by specially appointed expert advisers.

Prize Awarder for the Prize in Economics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for selecting the Laureates in Economics. The Academy has 350 Swedish and 164 foreign members. Membership in the Academy constitutes exclusive recognition of successful research achievements. Its working body is the Prize Committee, elected from among its membes for a three-year term.

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