THE NOBEL PRIZES 2013 - DO YOU KNOW...???

NOBEL PRIZE

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances.

The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was created in 1968.

The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. 

The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to - 

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider".

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to - 

Martin Karplus , Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to -

James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 was awarded to -

 Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story".

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded to -

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons".

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013 was awarded jointly to -

Eugene F. Fama , Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller "for their empirical analysis of asset prices".

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