Monday, January 13, 2014

List of Noble Prize-2013 Winners

1) Physics: François Englert (Belgium) & Peter W.Higgs (Britain) 
"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" 

2) Chemistry: Martin Karplus (USA), Michael Levitt(USA) & Arieh Warshel (USA) 
"For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" 

3) Physiology/Medicine: -BJames E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, Thomas C. Südhof (All 3 are from USA) 
"For their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells" 

4) Literature: Alice Munro (Canada) 
"For master of the contemporary short story" 

5) Peace Prize: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 
"For its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons". Headquarter - Hague, Netherlands

6) Economic Science: Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller (All 3 are from USA) 

"For their empirical analysis of asset prices”

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