PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
Americans James E. Rothman of Yale, Randy W. Schekman of the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University School of Medicine German-American Dr. Thomas C. Sudhof shared the medicine award.The award was given for breakthroughs in understanding how key substances are moved around within a cell. That process happens through vesicles, tiny bubbles that at the right time deliver their cargo to the right position inside a cell. Delivery disturbances may lead to neurological disease, diabetes, or immune disorders.
PEACE
OPCW, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. Experts from the Hague-based global chemical weapons watchdog, supported by the United Nations, are now engaged in destroying Syria’s massive chemical weapons. According to its statistics, 57,740 metric tons of the world’s declared stockpile of chemical weapons have been destroyed till now by OPCW. The Organisation is led by the Director-General. Ahmet Uzumcu of Turkey is the present Director-General of the OPCW.
LITERATURE
The literature prize was given to the Canadian novelist Alice Munro. She is popularly considered as a “master of the contemporary short story.” The 82-year-old author is often called “Canada’s Chekhov” for her astute, unflinching and compassionate depiction of seemingly unremarkable lives. She is the author of a series of stories that chronicle the lives of girls and women before and after the social revolution of the 1960s. Her important works include “The Moons of Jupiter,” ‘The Progress of Love”, “Runaway” etc.
PHYSICS
The physics prize was awarded for the much discussed prediction of the God’s particle. The theory was about how subatomic particles get their mass. The theory made headlines last year when it was confirmed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva by the discovery of the elusive Higgs-Boson particle. The prize was shared by two scientists who proposed the theory independently of each other in 1964, Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium.
CHEMISTRY
The chemistry prize was given to three U.S.-based scientists named Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel. These were awarded for developing computer models that predict complex and superfast chemical reactions that can be used for tasks like creating new drugs. Their approach combined classical physics and quantum physics. Martin Karplus comes from the University of Strasbourg, France, and the University of Harvard, Michael Levitt from the School of Medicine, Stanford University, and Arieh Warshel from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
ECONOMICS
This year's Nobel Prize for economics was shared by the American trio Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller. The academy said it was honouring the three prize winners for their work examining the way financial markets work and assets such as stocks are priced.
Americans James E. Rothman of Yale, Randy W. Schekman of the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University School of Medicine German-American Dr. Thomas C. Sudhof shared the medicine award.The award was given for breakthroughs in understanding how key substances are moved around within a cell. That process happens through vesicles, tiny bubbles that at the right time deliver their cargo to the right position inside a cell. Delivery disturbances may lead to neurological disease, diabetes, or immune disorders.
PEACE
OPCW, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. Experts from the Hague-based global chemical weapons watchdog, supported by the United Nations, are now engaged in destroying Syria’s massive chemical weapons. According to its statistics, 57,740 metric tons of the world’s declared stockpile of chemical weapons have been destroyed till now by OPCW. The Organisation is led by the Director-General. Ahmet Uzumcu of Turkey is the present Director-General of the OPCW.
LITERATURE
The literature prize was given to the Canadian novelist Alice Munro. She is popularly considered as a “master of the contemporary short story.” The 82-year-old author is often called “Canada’s Chekhov” for her astute, unflinching and compassionate depiction of seemingly unremarkable lives. She is the author of a series of stories that chronicle the lives of girls and women before and after the social revolution of the 1960s. Her important works include “The Moons of Jupiter,” ‘The Progress of Love”, “Runaway” etc.
PHYSICS
The physics prize was awarded for the much discussed prediction of the God’s particle. The theory was about how subatomic particles get their mass. The theory made headlines last year when it was confirmed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva by the discovery of the elusive Higgs-Boson particle. The prize was shared by two scientists who proposed the theory independently of each other in 1964, Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium.
CHEMISTRY
The chemistry prize was given to three U.S.-based scientists named Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel. These were awarded for developing computer models that predict complex and superfast chemical reactions that can be used for tasks like creating new drugs. Their approach combined classical physics and quantum physics. Martin Karplus comes from the University of Strasbourg, France, and the University of Harvard, Michael Levitt from the School of Medicine, Stanford University, and Arieh Warshel from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
ECONOMICS
This year's Nobel Prize for economics was shared by the American trio Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller. The academy said it was honouring the three prize winners for their work examining the way financial markets work and assets such as stocks are priced.