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BY RAVI SINGH.
The 2017 Nobel Prize were
announced recently in 6 different fields viz. Physiology or
Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace,
and Economic Sciences.
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his
last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of
prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace -
the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prize distribution was first done on 1901. In
1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established The Sveriges
Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
All the fiels are as follows :
S. No.
|
Field
|
Description
|
Winner
|
1.
|
Physiology or Medicine
|
for the discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm |
Jeffrey C. Hall (USA), Michael Rosbash (USA) and Michael W.
Young (USA)
|
2.
|
Physics
|
for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves |
Rainer Weiss (Germany), Barry C. Barish (USA) and Kip S. Thorne
(USA)
|
3.
|
Chemistry
|
for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution
structure determination of biomolecules in solution
|
Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Joachim Frank (Germany) and
Richard Henderson (Scotland)
|
4.
|
Literature |
in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world |
Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan)
|
5.
|
Peace
|
for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons |
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
(founded in Australia)
|
6.
|
Economic Sciences
|
for contributions to behavioural economics |
Richard H. Thaler (USA)
|
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