Nobel Prize Winners 2013

NOBEL PRIZE
Every Year the Nobel prize was awarded for Outstanding contributions in Physics, Chemistry, Literature,Peace, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences.Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which is decided by the Nobel Foundation. As of 2012, each prize was worth 8 million SEK (c. US$1.2 million, €0.93 million).the list for 2013 noble prize winners.

                               Nobel Prize Winners 2013

1) Nobel Prize in Physics:

Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium ( 8 Oct 2013).

2) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:

Americans James E. Rothman of Yale and Randy W. Schekman of the University of California, Berkeley and German-American Dr. Thomas C. Sudhof of the Stanford University School of Medicine(8 Oct 2013).

3) Nobel Prize in Chemistry:

Martin Karplus of the University of Strasbourg, France and Michael Levitt of the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (9 Oct 2013).

4) Nobel Prize in Literature:

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 was awarded to Canada's Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story"( 10 Oct 2013).

5) Nobel Peace Prize:

"Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW)" The global chemical weapons watchdog charged with overseeing destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile during a civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize (11 Oct 2013).

6) Nobel Prize for Economics

Nobel prize for Economics was awarded to Robert J. Shiller;Lars Peter Hansen;Eugene Fama (14 October 2013)



[Note: The dates mentioned in the braces are the day on which the award was announced]