Friday 2 November 2012

List of Nobel Prize Winners 2012


Nobel Prize 2012 Winners

The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: Nobelpriset, Norwegian: Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine
Nobel Prize 2012 Winners

List of Nobel Prize Winners 2012

Sl.No
Name
Specialization
Award For
1
Ø Serge Haroche (France)
Ø David J. Wineland(USA)
Physics
Ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems
2
Ø Robert J. Lefkowitz(USA)
Ø Brian K. Kobilka(USA)
Chemistry
Studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
3
Ø Sir John B. Gurdon (UK)
Ø Shinya Yamanaka(JAPAN)
Physiology or Medicine
The discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
4
Mo Yan(CHINA)
Literature
Who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary
5
European Union (EU)
Peace
For over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe
6
Ø Alvin E. Roth(USA)
Ø Lloyd S. Shapley(USA)
Economic Sciences
For the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design