Lists of 2016 Nobel Prize Winners:

Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world. The first distribution of the prizes took place on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of Nobel’s death.

Nobel Prize for Physics
Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize forLiterature
Nobel Prize for Peace
Noble Prize for Economic Sciences (Added in 1969)

( Noble prize for Economic Sciences Awarded by The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969. Although not technically a Nobel Prize, it is identified with the award; its winners are announced with the Nobel Prize recipients, and the Prize in Economic Sciences is presented at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony)

List of 2016 Noble Prize Winners

Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2016
Nobel Laureates	Field	Contribution
F. Duncan M. Haldane J. Michael Kosterlitz	Physics	For the theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter“
Jean-Pierre Sauvage Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Bernard L. Feringa	Chemistry	For the design and synthesis of molecular machines
Yoshinori Ohsumi	Physiology or Medicine	For the discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
Bob Dylan	Literature	For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
Juan Manuel Santos	Peace	For his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end
Oliver Hart Bengt Holmström	Economic Sciences	For their contributions to contract theory

It is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances. In Physics, Chemistry, and Economic Sciences is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; in Physiology or Medicine; Literature; and the Nobel Peace Prize are awarded by the Karolinska Institute, Swedish Academy and Norwegian Nobel Committee respectively.