In Chemistry

"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"

Eric Betzig
Stefan W. Hell
William E. Moerner

USA
Romania
USA

Affiliation at the time of the award:Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award:Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Affiliation at the time of the award:Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Born: 1960, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Born: 1962, Arad, Romania
Born: 1953

In Physiology or Medicine

"for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"

John O'Keefe
May-Britt Moser
Edvard I. Moser

USA
Norway
Norway

Affiliation at the time of the award:University College, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of the award:Centre for Neural Computation, Trondheim, Norway

Affiliation at the time of the award:Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway

Born:1939, New York, NY, USA
Born:1963, Fosnavåg, Norway
Born:1962, Ålesund, Norway

In Physics

" for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"

Isamu Akasaki
Hiroshi Amano
Shuji Nakamura

Japan
Japan
Japan

Affiliation at the time of the award:Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Affiliation at the time of the award:Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Affiliation at the time of the award:University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Born: 1929, Chiran, Japan
Born: 1960, Hamamatsu, Japan
Born: 1954, Ikata, Japan