Every year (since 1901) the Nobel Foundation has been honoring the final wish of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
This year the three science prizes went to nine scientists who overcame a big biology problem, harnessed light and unraveled the mechanism at the heart of a cell.
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology:
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak
Nobel Prize for Physics:
Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith
Nobel Prize for Chemistry:
Thomas Seitz, Ada Yonath and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
