List of Nobel Prize Winners 2013 On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament , giving the largest share of his f...
List of Nobel Prize Winners 2013
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace - the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Here is the list of Nobel Prize Winners 2013!!
Area | Recipients | Awarded for |
Physics | 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" |
Chemistry | Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel | "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" |
Physiology or Medicine | 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" |
Literature | Alice Munro | "master of the contemporary short story" |
Peace | Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) | "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons" |
Economic Sciences | Will be announced on Monday 14 October |
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