The Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 received the International Movement for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for "work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons".
In 2016, the Nobel Peace Prize was received by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for taking steps to resolve the conflict with the FARC militants.
Previously, Nobel Prizes in Medicine (for "biological clock"), physics (for the discovery of gravitational waves), chemistry (for cryoelectronic microscopy) and literature (Kazuo Ishiguro).
The size of the Nobel Prize in 2017 is nine million Swedish kronor (1.1 million dollars).