October, 2009
| Nobel Peace Prize | |
| Barack Obama (For efforts to strengthen international diplomacy) | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Willard S Boyle (Invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit (CCD sensor)) | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Charles K Kao (Transmission of light in fibers for optical communication) | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| George E Smith (Invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit (CCD sensor)) | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome) | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Thomas A Steitz (Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome) | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Ada E Yonath (Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Elizabeth H Blackburn (Discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Carol W Greider (Discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Jack W Szostak (Discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase) | |
| Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Herta Muller (Depicting the landscape of the dispossessed with poetry and prose) | |
| Nobel Prize in Economics | |
| Elinor Ostrom (For analysis of economic governance especially the commons) | |
| Nobel Prize in Economics | |
| Oliver E Williamson (For analysis of economic governance especially the boundaries of the firm) | |