Nobel Prize 2008: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien

   Chemistry

   for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP

2. Medicine

   Harald zur Hausen

   Biology

   for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer

3. Medicine

   Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier

   Biology

   for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus

4. Physics

   Yoichiro Nambu

   Physics

   for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics

5. Physics

   Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa

   Physics

   for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature