In Chemistry
" for the discovery of quasicrystals "
| Dan Shechtman |
| Israel |
| Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel |
| Born. 1941, Tel Aviv, Israel |
In Physiology or Medicine
" for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity "
| Bruce A. Beutler | Jules A. Hoffmann | Ralph M. Steinman |
| USA | Luxembourg | Canada |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA | Molecular and Cellular Biology Institut | Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA |
| Born. 1957, Chicago, IL, USA | Born. 1941, Echternach, Luxembourg | Born. 1943, Montreal, Canada Died. 30 September 2011 |
In Physics
" for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
| Saul Perlmutter | Brian P. Schmidt | Adam G. Riess |
| USA | USA | USA |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA | Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Born. 1959, Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA | Born. 1967, Missoula, MT, USA | Born. 1969, Washington, DC, USA |
