Nobel Prize winners in 2014

The Nobel Prize is a group of annual international awards honour in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances.

The Nobel prize present in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences.

S. No.

Nobel Prize in Winner Prize given for

1

Physics Isamu Akasaki (Japan)
Hiroshi Amano (Japan)
Shuji Nakamura (Japan)
The invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.

2

Chemistry Eric Betzig (USA)
Stefan W. Hell (Romania)
William E. Moerner (USA)
The development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

3

Physiology or Medicine John O'Keefe (USA)
May-Britt Moser (Norway)
Edvard I. Moser (Norway)
Their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

4

Literature Patrick Modiano (France) The art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation

5

Peace Kailash Satyarthi (India)
Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan)
Their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education

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Created At: 11 October, 2014

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