Friday 11 October 2013

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FOR 2013

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

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

 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

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
alice munro

   "master of the contemporary short story"
Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian author. The winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction





The Nobel Peace Prize 2013

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is overseeing the destruction's of Syria's arsenal, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
Experts from the Hague-based global chemical weapons watchdog, supported by the United Nations, are working to destroy Syria's massive chemical weapons stockpile after a sarin gas strike in the suburbs of Damascus killed more than 1,400 people in August.
The $1.25 million prize will be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will.
Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, which has a strong track record leaking the names of winners, reported the OPCW's victory more than an hour before the official announcement.


The 2013 Prize in Economic Sciences has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Monday 14 October







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