Nobel Prize List (2013)
1) The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to 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"
Peter Higgs
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
François Englert
Born: 6 November 1932, Etterbeek, Belgium
Affiliation at the time of the award: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
2) The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
Martin Karplus
Born: 15 March 1930, Vienna, Austria
Affiliation at the time of the award: Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Michael Levitt
Born: 9 May 1947, Pretoria, South Africa
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Arieh Warshel
Born: 20 November 1940, Kibbutz Sde-Nahum, Israel
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
3) The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to 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".James E. Rothman
Born: 3 November 1950, Haverhill, MA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Field: cell physiology
Randy W. Schekman
Born: 30 December 1948, St. Paul, MN, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Field: cell physiology
Thomas C. Südhof
Born: 22 December 1955, Goettingen, Germany
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Field: cell physiology
4) The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 was awarded to Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story".Alice Munro
Born: 10 July 1931, Wingham, Canada
Residence at the time of the award: Canada
5) The Nobel Peace Prize 2013
The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons".Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Founded: 1997
Field: arms control and disarmament
6) The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013
The 2013 Prize in Economic Sciences has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Monday 14 October, 1:00 p.m. CET at the earliest.
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