List of Nobel Prize Winners 2014

Area
Recipients
Awarded for
Physiology or Medicine 2014
John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser
"for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"
Physics
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura.
“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”
Chemistry
Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner.
“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.
Literature
Patrick Modiano
“for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”.
Peace
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay
for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
Economics
Jean Tirole
“for his analysis of market power and regulation”.

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