Current affairs oct 2013 - Vetrii IAS Study Circle

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he Nobel Prize winners of 2013 in the different categories were announced in the month of October 2013. Nobel Prizes are announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every year in the memory of Alfred Nobel.

The Nobel Prize winners of 2013 in the different categories were as follows: Category

Name of the Person

 James Rothman 1. Physiology or Medicine

 Randy Schekman  Thomas Suedhof  Peter Higgs

2. Physics  Francois Englert  Michael Levitt 3. Chemistry

 Martin Karplus  Arieh Warshel  The Organisation

4. Peace

5. Literature

for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

 Alice Munro  Eugene Fama

6. Economics

 Lars Peter Hansen  Robert Shiller

Contribution

 For their groundbreaking

work on how the cell organises its transport system.

 For

the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.

 For the development of

multi scale models for complex chemical systems.

 For its extensive efforts to eliminate weapons.

 Master

chemical

of contemporary story.

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 For their work on creating

a deeper knowledge of how market prices move.


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