2012 Nobel Prize Winners

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