2012 Nobel Prize Winners
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S.No
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Field
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Name of the Person/ Organization
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Country
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Purpose
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1.
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PHYSICS
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Serge Haroche
and
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France
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For
ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation
of individual quantum systems
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David J.
Wineland
|
America
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2.
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CHEMISTRY
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Robert J.
Lefkowitz and
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America
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For studies of
G-Protein-coupled receptors
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Brain K.
Kobilka
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America
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3.
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PHYSIOLOGY OR
MEDICINE
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Sir John B.
Gurdon and
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Britan
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For the
discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
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Shinya
Yamanaka
|
Japan
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4.
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ECONOMIC
SCIENCES
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Alvin E. Roth
and
|
America
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For the theory
of stable allocations and the practice of market design
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Lioyd S.
Shapley
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America
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5.
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LITERATURE
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Mo Yan
|
China
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Who with
hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary
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6.
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PEACE PRIZE
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European Union
(EU)
|
Europe
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For over six
decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation. Democracy
and human rights in Europe.
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