2010 Nobel Prize Winners

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Below find the winners of the 2010 Nobel Prizes, including prizes for Peace, Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, Literature, and Economics.

• Peace
  Liu Xiaobo (China) for "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"
• Physiology or Medicine
  Robert G. Edwards (UK) for "for the development of in vitro fertilization"
• Physics
  Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (both Russia) for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene"
• Chemistry
  Richard F. Heck (U.S.), Ei-ichi Negishi (U.S.), and Akira Suzuki (Japan) for "palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
• Literature
  Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
• Economics Peter Diamond (U.S.), Dale T. Mortensen (U.S.), and Christopher A. Pissarides (UK) for "their analysis of markets with search frictions"