Nobel Prize Winners for 2011

Nobel Peace Prize-  "For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (President of Liberia)

http://acelebrationofwomen.org/?p=28546

Leymah Roberta Gbowee of Liberia

http://www.sassistas.com/sassistas_our_dish_on_the/2008/06/fighting-back-w.html

Tawakkul Karman of Yemen

http://stylesense.com/worldsheikingwomen.htm

Nobel Prize in Literature - " because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."

Tomas Transtromer of Sweden

http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/tomas-transtromer.html

Nobel Prize in Chemistry - "for the discovery of quasicrystals"

Dan Schechtman of Israel

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2011/shechtman.html

Nobel Prize in Physics = "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"

Saul Perlmutter of USA

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/02/19/perlmutter-einstein-medal/

Brian P Schmidt of USA & Australia

http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~brian/

Adam Guy Reiss of USA

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/1267.php

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine -"for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"

Bruce Alan Beutler of USA

http://vivo.scripps.edu/display/BeutlerBruce

Jules A. Hoffmann of Luxembourg & France

http://www.gairdner.org/awardrecipients/2011recipients/julesahoffmannphd

"'for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"

Ralph Marvin Steinman of Canada

http://www.cerc.gc.ca/selection/steinman-eng.shtml

Congrats to the above winners!