Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 was divided, one half awarded to David Card 'for his empirical contributions to labour economics', the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens 'for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.'"

"The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded jointly to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov 'for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.'"

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he was "surprised and humbled" to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism".

The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000).

Gurnah, 73, is the author of 10 novels, including Paradise and Desertion.

One of the Nobel Peace Prize recipients is Filipino journalist Maria Ressa who is Duterte's least favorite journalist. I love it!

"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan 'for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.'"

"This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming” and the other half to Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”.

The awarding of the 2021 Nobel Prizes began today with the prize in Physiology Or Medicine going to "David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian 'for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch'."

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