Nobelisti 2008?

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The Nobel Prizes for 2008 were awarded in the following categories:

1. Peace: Martti Ahtisaari - for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.

2. Literature: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - for his exploration of humanity in his writings, which seek to bridge cultures and oppose the forces of globalization and alienation.

3. Physics:
- Yoichiro Nambu - for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.
- Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa - for the discovery of the origin of the generation of elementary particles, and their prediction of the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

4. Chemistry: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien - for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.

5. Physiology or Medicine: Harald zur Hausen - for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer; Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier - for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

6. Economic Sciences: Paul Krugman - for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.

These laureates have made significant contributions across various fields, reflecting the wide range of human achievement recognized by the Nobel Prizes.

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