2012 Nobel Prize - Physiology or Medicine
John B Gurdon(UK) and Shinya Yamanaka(Japan) have won the 2012 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body
Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine Shinya Yamanaka of Japan, speaks to reporters during a press conference at Kyoto University, in Kyoto, western Japan.
2012 Nobel Prize -Physics
Serge Haroche(French Physicist and Professor at the College de France) and David Wineland(American Physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory and the University of Colorado)awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize - Physics “for ground-breaking experimental methods” that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems''.
2012 Nobel Prize -Chemistry
The 2012 Nobel prize in
chemistry has gone to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka, US Researchers whose work shed light on how
the billions of cells in our body sense their environments.
Their work focuses on what are called G protein-coupled receptors, a number of proteins that reach through cell walls.
2012 Nobel Prize -Literature
Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature.A prolific author, Mo has published dozens of short stories, with his first work published in 1981.Mo Yan rose to national acclaim following his 1987 work Red Sorghum, the story of a young girl in rural China set on the eve of the Japanese occupation. He has since been much celebrated for his dramatic novels usually framed against turbulent events in recent Chinese history.
Among Mo Yan's more popular works are -
Republic of Wine(1992) which lifts the veil on the drinking culture — and the accompanying corruption — that permeates all levels of government.
Big Breasts and Wide Hips(2004) the story of a mother and her seven daughters set against the backdrop of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese invasion and the Cultural Revolution, was also critically acclaimed.
Mo Yan(57)is the first Chinese resident to win the prize. Chinese-born Gao Xingjian was honoured in 2000, but is a French citizen.
The last Chinese Nobel laureate was the jailed political activist and writer Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Peace Prize in 2010.
Mo Yan is the 109th recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8 million kronor (£741,000).
2012 Nobel Prize -Peace
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2012 peace prize on Friday to the 27-Nation European Union(EU), saying it had contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation across the continent.
The EU has been a key in transforming Europe "from a continent of wars to a continent of peace," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in announcing the award in Oslo,Norway.
The prize, worth USD 1.2 million, will be presented in Oslo on December 10,2012.
2012 Nobel Prize -Economics
Alvin E. Roth of Harvard University and Lloyd S. Shapley of the University of California at Los Angeles were named recipients of the award -- officially called the Sveriges Riksban Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -- at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden on Monday Oct 15,2012
Roth and Shapley were honored for "the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design''
Noble Prize for Economics has been given since 1969. The honor has been bestowed on 71 people so far, including one woman, Elinor Ostrom
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