Andrea Ghez is presented with the Nobel Prize in Physics during a ceremony in Beverly Hills, California.
Charles M. Rice poses Nobel prize medal in physiology or medicine during a ceremony, in New York.
Jennifer A. Doudna, center, holds her Nobel Prize while posing between her husband, Jamie Cate, right, and their son Andy Cate at a ceremony that presented Doudna with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Berkeley, California. Jamie Cate holds a phone where Doudna's sister Sarah Doudna is on the line.
Peter Fredriksson, Chairman of the Committee for Economic Sciences, left, Goran K. Hansson, Permanent Secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, center, and Tommy Andersson, member in The Prize Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences announce the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2020 at a press conference in Stockholm. Americans Paul R. Milgrom, left on screen, and Robert B. Wilson have won the Nobel Prize in economics for "improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats."
Professor Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, left, and Goran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences, after announcing the winners of the 2020 Nobel prize in Chemistry during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden. The 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier, left on screen, and Jennifer Doudna‚ for the development of a method for genome editing.
Ulf Danielsson, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences speaks after the announcement of the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden. The three winners on the screen from left, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have won this year's Nobel Prize in physics for black hole discoveries.
This combination of photos shows, from left, Harvey J. Alter, Charles M. Rice, and Michael Houghton who jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine, for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The major source of liver disease affects millions worldwide.
Charles M. Rice, professor of virology at Rockefeller University, poses for a portrait in his laboratory office, in New York. Rice was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus along with fellow American Harvey J. Alter and British-born scientist Michael Houghton.
Chemistry laureate John B. Goodenough, left, receives the prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, during the Nobel Prize award ceremony, at the Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm.
Austrian author Peter Handke, left, receives the 2019 Nobel Prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm.
Physiology or Medicine laureate William G. Kaelin Jr, left, receives the prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, during the Nobel Prize award ceremony, at the Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm.
A bronze bust of Alfred Nobel on display at the Nobel award ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Esther Duflo of France, left, receives the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, during the Nobel Prize award ceremony, at the Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm.
Abhijit Banerjee of India, left, receives the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm.
Swedish finance minister Magdalena Andersson and economics laureate Abhijit Banerjee arrive to the Nobel banquet at Stockholm City Hall, in Stockholm.
Co-laureates of the 2019 Nobel laureates in economics Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo hold up a signed chair as part of the traditional Nobel Chair Signing ceremony at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
It all collapsed into that most palatable of all piscine matters—Hilsa, or Ilish, the silvery perfection of which has its salty hold intact on Gaud. A repÂort on Abhijit Banerjee’s love for Ilish, as expÂressed by his mother...an eager offer to deliver the same from her constituency by Nusrat...a glad acceptance. The begun ilish awaits sir, do tuck in heartily.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian-American Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics this year, during a meeting at the PM's residence, in New Delhi.
Nirmala Banerjee, mother of Indian-American economist Abhijit Binayak Banerjee, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, interacts with media while holding a photograph of her son, at her residence in Kolkata. Banerjee has been honoured along with his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for pioneering new ways to alleviate global poverty.
Esther Duflo, left, and Abhijit Banerjee speak during a news conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Banerjee and Duflo, along with Harvard's Michael Kremer, were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering new ways to alleviate global poverty.
Goran K Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, center, and academy members Peter Fredriksson, left, and Jakob Svensson announce the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."
Yves Flueckiger, left, Rector of the university of Geneva, welocms Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, center, Nobel Prize 2019 in Physics, for the ceremony Dies Academicus, at the university of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland. The Nobel Prize in Physics jointly awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. One half of the prize was awarded to Peebles for "theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology," and the other half to Mayor and Queloz for 'the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star'.
Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, Nobel Prize 2019 in Physics, speaks during the ceremony Dies Academicus, at the university of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland. The Nobel Prize in Physics jointly awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. One half of the prize was awarded to Peebles for "theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology," and the other half to Mayor and Queloz for 'the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star'.
In this file photo, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
A screen displays the laureates of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, from left, John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries", during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.
Silvano Gallus, of Italy, waves as he receives the Ig Nobel award in medicine for collecting evidence that pizza might protect against illness and death, if the pizza is made and eaten in Italy, at the 29th annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass.
Marc Abrahams holds up the 2019 Ig Nobel award at the 29th annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The spoof prizes for weird and sometimes head-scratching scientific achievement are bestowed by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine, and handed out by real Nobel laureates.
Physics laureate Donna Strickland, left, receives the prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, during the Nobel Prize award ceremony, at the Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm.
The Nobel laureates seated on the podium at the Stockholm Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony, in Stockholm. The Nobel laureates are seated in the front row at left and the Royal family at right.
The Peace Prize laureates Dr. Denis Mukwege from Congo and Nadia Murad from Iraq, left, pose with their medals during the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo Town Hall, Oslo. Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad receive the Nobel Peace Prize recognising their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi meets Pope Francis during a call on, in Vatican City. Satyarthi sought Pope's support for a new legally binding international law against growing digital and online forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse cases.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hugs Nobel peace prize winner Iraqi Yazidi's Nadia Murad Basee Taha at the Paris Peace Forum as part of the commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, in Paris. International leaders attended a ceremony in Paris at mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped the Islamic State and a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, reacts while speaking at a news conference at the International Federation for Human Rights office in Paris.
French president Emmanuel Macron, right, accompanies Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped the Islamic State and a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, after their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. Foreign fighters, including many Europeans, took a leading role in carrying out the Islamic State group's atrocities against minority Yazidis, an international human rights group said outlining testimony and documentation from survivors of an organized system of killing and enslavement.
Nadia Murad, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, reacts while speaking at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
The Nobel prize laureate in medicine or physiology 2018 is shown on the screen as James P Allison, left, and Tasuku Honjo, during the presentation at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The citation for this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine says the two honorees developed therapies for treating cancer.
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Director Derek Doneen, Kailash Satyarthi and producer Sarah Anthony, from left, pose for a portrait to promote the film "Kailash," at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), activist and Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow speaks in Oslo City Hall after the ICAN officially received the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, in Oslo.
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, Beatrice Fihn, the executive of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) gives her acceptance speech in Oslo City Hall, Norway.
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, representatives of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), with leader of the Nobel committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, left, Hiroshima Survivor Setsuko Thurlow and leader of ICAN Beatrice Fihn in the City Hall Oslo, Norway. ICAN are officially receive the Nobel Peace Prize award during a ceremony.
Jeans, boots and bomber jacket may be de rigueur for other Oxford students, but not for a young Nobel winner who almost gave her life for an ideal. A photo showing MalÂala Yousafzai in such daring dress made its way to PakÂistan, where conservative, and jealous, hordes decenÂded on her to play their favourite sport: merciless trolling.
Beatrice Fihn, left, of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, arrives for a press conference, at the headquarters of the International campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), in Geneva, Switzerland. ICAN is the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Geneva-based group "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons."
Beatrice Fihn, left, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Daniel Hogsta, center, coordinator nd Grethe Ostern, right, member of the steering committee, celebrate with champagne at the headquarters of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), in Geneva, Switzerland. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Richard Henderson, one of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, holds a bacterio rhodopsin model prior to a press conference at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, centre right, speaks with school girls in Maiduguri Nigeria. Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai was greeted with cheers by dozens of young women in northeastern Nigeria, where she spoke out for the many girls abducted under Boko Haram's deadly insurgency.
Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, right, walks through the hall of honour with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, poses for selfies with children at the school "Casa Esperanza," or Hope Home, in Boquete, Panama.
Children dressed as clowns wait to dance for Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, from India, as he visits the school "Casa Esperanza," or Hope Home, in Boquete, Panama. Satyarthi is in Panama at the invitation of the first lady Lorena Castillo de Varela who is working in eradicate child labor. Casa Esperanza, which offers fee education to the children of poor, mostly hired farm hands, say they have rescued more than 30,000 children from child labor since 1992.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hand with Noble prize winner Scientists at Noble prize series function at Science City, in Ahmedabad.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, right, arrives with his wife Maria Clemencia Rodirguez for a press conference at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize, just days after voters narrowly rejected a peace deal he signed with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC.
The Royal Academy of Sciences members, from left to right, Professor Sara Snogerup Linse, Professor Goran K Hansson and Professor Olof Ramstrom present the 2016 Nobel Chemistry Prize at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi addresses the opening session of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen releases 'Living Reality of Muslims in West Bengal:A Report',as noted poet Shankha Ghosh(L) looks on.
Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi gestures as he speaks during the launch of his book "Azad Bachpan ki Aor".
Angus Deaton gestures at a gathering at Princeton University after it was announced that he won the Nobel prize in economics for improving understanding of poverty and how people in poor countries respond to changes in economic policy.
FILE - This Sept. 2013 file picture shows from left to right the Tunisian leaders of the organizations that form the quartet : the president of the employers union, Wided Bouchamaoui, the head of the labor union, Houcine Abbassi, the president of Tunisian Human Rights League, Abdessattar Ben Moussa, and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers, Mohamed Fadhel Mafoudh, during a meeting in Tunis, Tunisia. The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday went to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, a coalition of workers, business owners, rights activists and lawyers who steered Tunisia away from civil war and toward democracy after its 2011 revolution.
Houcine Abassi, secretary general of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), right, is congratulated by unidentified union members in his office at the headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia. Abassi is one of the four members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet to be awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
This April 24, 2007 file picture shows Wided Bouchamaoui, president of the Tunisian employers union, during a meeting in Tunis, Tunisia. Bouchamaoui is one of the four members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet to be awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Kaci Kullmann Five, the new head of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, announces the winner of 2015 Nobel peace prize during a press conference in Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet.
Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich the 2015 Nobel literature winner, is surrounded as she leaves a news conference in Minsk, Belarus.
Paul Modrich takes a phone call as he sits on the couch with his dog Dover at his vacation home in Rumney, New Hampshire. Modrich, an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., is one of three scientists who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that has inspired the development of new cancer treatments.
Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, left, one of the joint winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the Harpal Kumar, CEO of Cancer Research UK as he celebrates with staff members at the Francis Crick Institute in Potters Bar, north London, England.
Scientist William C. Campbell poses for a photo with a collection of microscopes in his home in North Andover, Mass. Campbell is one of three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China who won the Nobel Prize in medicine on for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.
U.S. activist Gloria Steinem (sixth right in front) two Nobel Peace Prize laureates Mairead Maguire, from Northern Ireland (second from right) Leymah Gbowee, from Liberia (third from right) and other activists march to the Imjingak Pavilion with South Korean activists along the military wire fences near the border village of Panmunjom, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea. International women activists including Steinem and two Nobel Peace laureates on Sunday were denied an attempt to walk across the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea, but were allowed to cross by bus and complete what one of them called a landmark peace event.
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon,Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi with actress Nandita Das and Sharmila Tagore launch Logo of 'Young@70' in New Delhi.
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon with Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi launch the logo of 'Young@70' in New Delhi.
Year of Saving Children The Nobel Peace awards in 2014 was a subcontinental affair. Malala’s indomitable courage in the face of reactionary terror and Satyarthi’s decades-long doggedness in the face of apathy were rewarded in this recognition of the plight of disdvantaged children across the world. May their tribe increÂase; may their countries join hands.
Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi holds a kid as he is welcomed on his arrival in home town Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi places his Nobel medal as he pays tribute at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi paying tribute at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi holds up his Nobel diploma as he poses with children after paying tribute at Raj Ghat in New Delhi.
Prize winners Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, right, look at Malala's blood stained school uniform at the opening of the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.
Joint-Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi of India waves as he finishes speaking on stage during the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway.
Joint-Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan waves as she arrives to speak on stage during the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway. Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India received the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives to help protect children from slavery, extremism and forced labor at great risk to their own lives.
Musician Amjad Ali Khan, center, performs on stage during the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway on Thursday, 11 Dec., 2014.
Rescued child laborers of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan founded by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi celebrate at the organisation’s office in New Delhi
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, from Pakistan being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize during the award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
This combo of three images captures the reaction of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
Nobel literature laureate Patrick Modiano bows after receiving his diploma and medal from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf during the Nobel award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden.
French novelist and 2014 Nobel literature prizewinner Patrick Modiano before holding the Nobel lecture at the Swedish academy in Stockholm.
Patrick Modiano delivering his Nobel Lecture in the hall of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, from India smiles as he makes an address after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
A man holding the Mexican flag is led away by security after attempting to get on stage with Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, left, intervenes as a man holding the Mexican flag approaches Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India hold up their Nobel Peace Prize medals during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
A man holding the Mexican flag is led away by security after attempting to get on stage with Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India hold their Nobel Peace Prize diplomas and medals during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
An image of joint Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, center, is displayed on a screen alongside previous winners of the prize in the Nobel Field exhibit at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway.
Joint Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, fourth left, stands with five young women she invited to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, as they pose for a group photograph before speaking to the media at Malala's hotel in Oslo, Norway.
Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai, left, and Kailash Satyarthi attend a press conference in Oslo, Norway.
Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai, left, and Kailash Satyarthi attend a press conference in Oslo, Norway.
Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai, foreground right, and Kailash Satyarthi, left, are ushered into a press conference by Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Torbjorn Jagland, 2nd left, in Oslo, Norway.
Joint-Nobel Peace prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi give a press conference in Oslo, Norway. The Nobel Peace Prize will be presented to and shared between the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever, 17-year-old Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai and Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi in a ceremony in Oslo.
The bloodied school uniform worn by one of this years Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Malala Yousafzai, when she was shot in Pakistan, is unwrapped and prepared for exhibition in Oslo. The grim garments will be shown at the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo and will be part of an exhibition to honour present and past Nobel Peace Prize laureates as this year's prize is awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarth in the Oslo City Hall on December 10.
Nobel Prize winning child activist Kailash Satyarthi being felicitated by CII President Ajay S. Shriram at a function, in New Delhi.
