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Medicine
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Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan)
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For his work in autophagy (Process in which cell eats themselves).
He explained the mechanisms for autophagy in yeast and showed that similar sophisticated machinery is used in human cells
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Physics
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David Thouless, F Duncan M Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz (All British)
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Their research work centres on Topology, a branch of mathematics involving step-wise changes like making a series of holes in an object
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Chemistry
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Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France), J Fraser Stoddart (Britain) and Bernard L Feringa (Netherlands)
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For developing molecular machines (Nanomachines)
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Peace
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos
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For his resolute efforts to bring the more than 50-year-long civil war of Colombia to an end
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Economics
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Oliver Hart (UK) and Bengt Holmstrom (Finland)
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For their contributions to contract theory which tells how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests.
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Literature
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Bob Dylan
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