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Nobel Prizes 2008

Former President of Finland, Mr Martti Ahtisaari, won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize on October 10, 2008.

Japanese scientists Toshihide Maskawa and Makoto Kobayashi shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with US scientist Yoichiro Nambu.

Paul Krugman of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics.

German scientist Harald zur Hausen shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for medicine with French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier. Harald zur Hausen won the award for his discovery that the human papilloma viruses (HPV) cause cervical cancer. Françoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were given the honour for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus.

US scientist Yoichiro Nambu shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics with Japanese scientists Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. Yoichiro Nambu won the award for "the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics". The Japanese scientists won the award for "the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature".

US scientists Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of a glowing jellyfish protein that makes cells, tissues, and organs light up.

French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio won the Nobel Prize for Literature.