I’ve painstakingly extracted the journo-speak from this list, removed the camouflage and this is as simply as I can present it:
Peace Prize went to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank;
Peace Prize went to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank;
Literature Prize went to Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose recent trial for "insulting Turkishness" made headlines worldwide, accepted the for a body of work that illustrates the struggle to find a balance between East and West;
Medicine Prize in went to Andrew Z Fire and Craig C Mello for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of specific genes;
Chemistry Prize went to Roger D Kornberg, for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins, a process that could provide insight into defeating cancer and advancing stem cell research;
Physics Prize was won by John C Mather and George F Smoot for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of how the universe was created;
Economics Prize [began in 1968] went to Edmund S Phelps, who was cited for research into the relationship between inflation and unemployment, giving governments better tools to formulate economic policy.
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