Chris Prat
Filipino, Russian journalists awarded Nobel Peace Prize 2021
Announcing the coveted prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said it chose Ressa, the founder and chief of Rappler, digital media company for investigative journalism, and Muratov, the founder of Russian daily Novaya Gazeta, for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, "which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace."
Abdulrazak Gurnah conferred Nobel Prize for Literature 2021
Announcing the award - the first to a non-European writer since Japan-born Kazuo Ishiguro in 2017 - the Swedish Academy cited his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".
Chemistry Nobel awarded for developing new category of 'green' catalysts
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Benjamin List from Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research), Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany and British-born David W C MacMillan of Princeton University, "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis", said a statement.
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