The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established in 1895 by the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel; it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901.The first Nobel Prizes was awarded on 10 Dec.1901. The Nobel Prizes in the specific disciplines (physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature) and the Prize in Economics (awarded since 1969).
Nobel Prizes 2009
| | Winner |
| Nobel Peace Prize | US President Barack Obama |
| Nobel Medicine Prize | US trio Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak (discovering an enzyme which helps chromosomes in cells) |
| Nobel Literature Prize | Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer |
| Nobel Physics Prize | Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics for work in fibre-optics and in semiconductors, |
| Nobel Chemistry Prize | Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ;He shares it with Thomas Steitz, an American, and Ada Yonath, an Israeli |
| Nobel Economics Prize | Elinor Ostrom(first woman to win Nobel Prize for Economics) and Oliver Williamson of the United States |
