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Thursday, 12 June 2014

NOBEL PRIZE & Winners


About NOBEL PRIZE
Nobel Prize Medal





The Nobel Prize is a Swedish prize, established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics in 1901. Originally, awards were for work in five disciplines. The prize for Economics was instituted in 1967 by Sveriges Riksbank, (Swedish Bank) in celebration of its 300th anniversary and was awarded for the first time in 1969. It’s called the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

The most prestigious award in the world, supported by The Nobel foundation (USD 58,960,000) was set up in 1900 under the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-96). Alfred Nobel was a Swedish scientist and chemical engineer who discovered Nitroglycerin (C3H5N3O9) and its use in the manufacture of dynamite in 1866. These are presented annually on December 10, the death anniversary of the founder and is presented by the Swedish King.

The Nobel Prize medals, which have been minted by Myntverket in Sweden and the Mint of Norway since 1902, are registered trademarks of the Nobel Foundation.

Award Information

Year of Institution                  1901
Founder                                 Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Awarded Date                       December 10 (death anniversary of the founder)
No. of Disciplines Awarded   6

1.      Physics
2.      Chemistry
3.      Physiology or Medicine
4.      Literature
5.      Peace
6.      Economics (established in 1967)





Nobel Prizes Winners (2001 to 2013)
Category                Year    Name / Organisation                                                 Country
Physics              2001    Eric Allin Cornell                                                        United States
                                            Carl Edwin Wieman                                                   United States
                                            Wolfgang Ketterle                                                      Germany
                                2002    Raymond Davis, Jr.                                                    United States
                                            Masatoshi Koshiba                                                      Japan
                                            Riccardo Giacconi                                                      United States
                                2003    Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov                                   Russia
                                            Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg                                        Russia
                                            Anthony James Leggett                                              United Kingdom
                                2004    David J. Gross                                                            United States
                                            H. David Politzer                                                        United States
                                            Frank Wilczek                                                             United States
                                2005    Roy J. Glauber                                                            United States
                                            John L. Hall                                                                United States
                                            Theodor W. Hänsch                                                    Germany
                                2006    John C. Mather                                                           United States
                                            George F. Smoot                                                         United States
                                2007    Albert Fert                                                                  France
                                            Peter Grünberg                                                            Germany
                                2008    Makoto Kobayashi                                                      Japan
                                            Toshihide Maskawa                                                    Japan
                                            Yoichiro Nambu                                                         United States
                                2009    Charles K. Kao                                                           Honk Kong
                                            Willard S. Boyle                                                         Canada
                                            George E. Smith                                                         United States
                                2010    Andre Geim                                                                Netherlands        
                                            Konstantin Novoselov                         U.K. (Russian–British national)
                                2011    Saul Perlmutter                                                           United States      
                                            Brian P. Schmidt                                                         Australia
                                            Adam G. Riess                                                            United States
                                2012    Serge Haroche                                                             France     
                                            David J. Wineland                                                      United States
                                2013    Peter Higgs                                                                 Britain
                                            Francois Englert                                                          Belgium
       
       
CHEMISTRY       2001    William S. Knowles                                                    United States
                                            Ryoji Noyori                                                               Japan
                                            K. Barry Sharpless                                                      United States
                                2002    John B. Fenn                                                               United States
                                            Koichi Tanaka                                                             Japan
                                            Kurt Wüthrich                                                             Switzerland
                                2003    Peter Agre                                                                   United States
                                            Roderick MacKinnon                                                 United States
                                2004    Aaron Ciechanover                                                     Israel
                                            Avram Hershko                                                           Israel
                                            Irwin Rose                                                                  United States
                                2005    Yves Chauvin                                                             France
                                            Robert H. Grubbs                                                       United States
                                            Richard R. Schrock                                                     United States
                                2006    Roger D. Kornberg                                                     United States
                                2007    Gerhard Ertl                                                                Germany
                                2008    Osamu Shimomura                                                      United States
                                            Martin Chalfie                                                             United States
                                            Roger Y. Tsien                                                            United States
                                2009    Venkatraman Ramakrishnan                                       India, UK, US
                                            Thomas A. Steitz                                                        United States
                                            Ada E. Yonath                                                            Israel
                                2010    Richard Heck                                                              USA
                                            Ei-ichi Negishi                                                            Japan
                                            Akin Suzuki                                                                Japan
                                2011    Dan Shechtman                                                           Israel
                                2012    Robert J. Lefkowitz                                                    United States
                                            Brian K. Kobilka                                                         United States
                                2013    Martin Karplus                                                            United States
                                            Michael Levitt                                                             United States
                                            Arieh Warshel                                                             United States


       
MEDICINE          2001    Leland H. Hartwell                                                     United States
                                            Tim Hunt                                                                     United Kingdom
                                            Sir Paul M. Nurse                                                        United Kingdom
                                2002    Sydney Brenner                                                          United Kingdom
                                            H. Robert Horvitz                                                       United States
                                            John E. Sulston                                                           United Kingdom
                                2003    Paul Lauterbur                                                            United States
                                            Sir Peter Mansfield                                                     United Kingdom
                                2004    Richard Axel                                                               United States
                                            Linda B. Buck                                                            United States
                                2005    Barry J. Marshall                                                         Australia
                                            J. Robin Warren                                                          Australia
                                2006    Andrew Z. Fire                                                           United States
                                            Craig C. Mello                                                            United States
                                2007    Mario R. Capecchi                                                      United States
                                            Sir Martin J. Evans                                                      United Kingdom
                                            Oliver Smithies                                                           United States
                                2008    Harald zur Hausen                                                      Germany
                                            Françoise Barré-Sinoussi                                             France
                                            Luc Montagnier                                                          France
                                2009    Elizabeth H. Blackburn                                               Australia & US
                                            Carol W. Greider                                                        United States
                                            Jack W. Szostak                                                          United Kingdom
                                2010    Robert Edwards                                                          United Kingdom
                                2011    Bruce A. Beutler                                                                                    
                                            Jules A. Hoffmann                                                     
                                            Ralph M. Steinman
                                2012    Sir John Gurdon                                                          United Kingdom
                                            Shinya Yamanaka                                                       Japan
                                2013    James E. Rothman                                                      American
                                            Randy W. Schekman                                                  American
                                            Dr. Thomas C. Sudhof                                  German-American
                                                                                                                                                           
PEACE                  2001    United Nations, Kofi Annan                                      Ghana
                                2002    Jimmy Carter                                                               United States
                                2003    Shirin Ebadi                                                                Iran
                                2004    Wangari Maathai                                                         Kenya
                                2005    International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed El Baradei     Egypt
                                2006    Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank                           Bangladesh
                                2007    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore   United Stated
                                2008    Martti Ahtisaari                                                           Finland
                                2009    Barack Obama                                                            United States
                                2010    Jailed Chinese Political activist Liu Xiaobo               China      
                                2011    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf                                                  Liberia
                                            Leymah Gbowee                                                         Liberia
                                            Tawakkul Karman                                                       Yamen
                                2012    European Union                                                                         
                                2013    The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
       
LITERATURE    2001    V. S. Naipaul                                                              United Kingdom
                                2002    Imre Kertész                                                               Hungary
                                2003    J. M. Coetzee                                                              South Africa
                                2004    Elfriede Jelinek                                                           Austria
                                2005    Harold Pinter                                                              United Kingdom
                                2006    Orhan Pamuk                                                              Turkey
                                2007    Doris Lessing                                                              United Kingdom
                                2008    J. M. G. Le Clézio                                                       France
                                2009    Herta Müller                                                                Germany
                                2010    Mario Vargas Llosa                                                     Peru
                                2011    Tomas Tranströmer                                                     Sweden
                                2012    Mo Yan                                                                       China
                                2013    Alice Munro                                                                Canada
       
ECONOMICS      2001    George Akerlof                                                           United States
                                            Michael Spence                                                           United States
                                            Joseph E. Stiglitz                                                        United States
                                2002    Daniel Kahneman                                                       Israel
                                            Vernon L. Smith                                                         United States
                                2003    Robert F. Engle                                                           United States
                                            Clive Granger                                                              United Kingdom
                                2004    Finn E. Kydland                                                         Norway
                                            Edward C. Prescott                                                    United States
                                2005    Robert Aumann                                                          Israel
                                            Thomas Schelling                                                        United States
                                2006    Edmund Phelps                                                           United States
                                2007    Leonid Hurwicz                                                          United States
                                            Eric Maskin                                                                 United States
                                            Roger Myerson                                                           United States
                                2008    Paul Krugman                                                             United States
                                2009    Elinor Ostrom                                                             United States
                                            Oliver Williamson                                                       United States
                                2010    Peter Diamond                                                            USA
                                            Dale Mortensen                                                           USA
                                            British Cypriot Christopher Pissarides                        UK
                                2011    Thomas J. Sargent                                                       USA
                                            Christopher A. Sims                                                    USA
                                2012    Alvin E. Roth                                                              United States
                                            Lloyd S. Shapley                                                        United States
                                2013    Eugene F. Fama                                                  
                                           Lars Peter Hansen
                                           Robert J. Shiller


Nobel Prize Winner Indians (Indian Nobel Laureates)
1.      Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)     –          Literature (1913)
2.      C.V. Raman (1888–1970)                   –          Physics (1930)
3.      Hargobind Khorana (Born 1922....)    –          Medicine (1968)
4.      Mother Teresa (1910–1997)                –          Peace (1979)
5.      S. Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)                      –          Physics (1983)
6.      Amartya Sen (Born 1933....)               –          Economics (1998)
7.      Venkatraman Ramkrishnan                 –          Chemistry (2009)

Indian Born Foreign Nobel Laureates
1.      R.K. Pachauri (2007 for Peace, heads UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change)
2.      V.S. Naipaul (2001 for Literature, Trinidadian born of Indian origin)
3.      Dalai Lama (1989 for Peace, Leader of Tibetans in exile)
4.      Rudyard Kipling (1907 for Literature, born in Bombay)
5.      Ronald Ross [1902 for Medicine, born in Almora (Uttarakhand)]
6.      Venkatraman (Venky) Ramakrishnan  [2009, for Chemistry (Indian Born, American Citizen)]

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