The Nobel Prize winners for the year 2020 were as follows:

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of the CRISPR-Cas9 method for genome editing.
• Nobel Prize in Physics: Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity, and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.
• Nobel Prize in Literature: Awarded for a poetic voice that makes individual existence universal (the specific laureate's name was not specified in the excerpts).
• Nobel Peace Prize: Awarded for efforts to combat hunger, better conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas, and to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war.
• Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: Awarded for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.