Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 2018: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Frances H. Arnold

    Chemistry

    for the directed evolution of enzymes

  2. Chemistry

    George P. Smith, Gregory P. Winter

    Chemistry

    for the phage display of peptides and antibodies

  3. Medicine

    James P. Allison, Tasuku Honjo

    Biology

    for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation

  4. Physics

    Arthur Ashkin

    Physics

    for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems

  5. Physics

    Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland

    Physics

    for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses