2016 Nobel Prize Winners

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Below find the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prizes, including prizes for Peace, Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, Literature, and Economics.

Peace
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end." (See also: Past winners in Nobel Peace Prizes.)

Physiology or Medicine
Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan) and "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy." (See also: Past winners in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prizes.)

Physics
Jointly to David J. Thouless (U.K.) and F. Duncan M. Haldane (U.K.) J. Michael Kosterlitz (U.K.) "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." (See also: Past winners in Nobel Prizes in Physics.)

Chemistry
Jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (U.K.), and Bernard L. Feringa (Netherlands) "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines." (See also: Past winners in Chemistry Nobel Prizes.)

Literature
Bob Dylan (U.S.) "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." (See also: Past winners for Literature Nobel Prizes.)

Economics
Oliver Hart (U.K./U.S.) and Bengt Holmstr?m (Finland/U.S.) "for their contributions to contract theory." (See also: Past winners in Economics Nobel Prizes.)