Thursday, 8 August 2013

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.

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