The Nobel Prize winners in 2020 were:
- Physics: Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez for discoveries related to black holes and supermassive objects at the center of galaxies.
- Chemistry: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for developing the CRISPR-Cas9 method for genome editing.
- Physiology or Medicine: Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
- Literature: The prize went to a laureate recognized for an unmistakable poetic voice that makes individual existence universal.
- Peace: Awarded for efforts to combat hunger and for contributions to peace in conflict-affected areas.
- Economic Sciences: For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.
