Who won the Nobel Prize in 2008?

Answer 1

That depends on which Nobel Prize you are referring to.

2008 Nobel Prize in Physics:

Yoichiro Nambu - "discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"

and

Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa - "discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"

2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:

Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien - "discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"

2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:

Harald zur Hausen - "discovery of human papilloma viruses causing Cervical cancer"

and

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier - "discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"

2008 Nobel Prize in Literature:

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - "new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"

2008 Nobel Peace Prize:

Martti Ahtisaari - "important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"

2008 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel:

Paul Krugman - "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"

(Information from Nobelprize.org)