"Their systematic work has made a decisive contribution to the understanding of how the living cell functions, as well as providing knowledge about the molecular causes of several hereditary diseases and about mechanisms behind both cancer development and ageing," the committee said.
Reading the citation, the new committee chair, Kaci Kullmann Five, said the Tunisian coalition had helped bring the country back from the brink of civil war in 2013, and had made a "decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy".
But disagreements emerged (not formal, but actual) over whether the Russian Federation, which had made a decisive contribution to the self-dismantling of the Soviet Union, should be considered the loser.
It has put the UK in a position to make a decisive contribution to the global effort.
Michael Offer, a spokesman for Germany's Finance Ministry, described the decision as a "decisive contribution" to help resolve global imbalances.
They do not perceive the abyss between such peripheral interventions and a decisive contribution to regional and international security.
Dr. Brenner made a decisive contribution to solving the code with an ingenious series of experiments in which he altered the DNA of a virus that attacks bacteria.
"That contribution by the private sector is an indispensable element to ensure future sustainability of the Greek public debt and, thus, a decisive contribution to financial stability in the euro area as a whole.
