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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

2016 Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine


Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan on Monday Oct 03,2016 won the Nobel Medicine Prize for his work on autophagy - a process whereby cells "eat themselves" - which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes, the jury said.
"Mutations in autophagy genes can cause disease, and the autophagic process is involved in several conditions including cancer and neurological disease," it said.

Nobel Prize in Physics


David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in topology, a branch of mathematics that describes properties that change only in increments

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

 
Frenchman Jean—Pierre Sauvage, British—born J Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard Feringa today won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing molecular machines.
The laureates share the 8 million kronor (USD 930,000) prize for the “design and synthesis” of molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

Nobel Peace Prize

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Nobel Prize in Literature    

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