Overview

• The Nutrition award went to a team from Nigeria, Togo, Italy and France for studying how a lizard species chooses certain kinds of pizza.
• The Pediatrics prize honored two U.S. researchers for examining what a breastfed infant experiences when the mother eats garlic.
• A posthumous Literature award recognized U.S. scientist William Bean for tracking the growth of a single fingernail for about 35 years.
• The Peace prize went to a team including Freiburg researchers Fritz Renner and Jessica Werthmann for evidence that alcohol can sometimes improve speaking a foreign language.
• The Physics award recognized a group including the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems for explaining pasta sauce clumping through a phase transition.