Archive | October 16, 2014
NOBEL PRIZE 2014

Nobel Prize 2014
Here is the list of winners this year:
PHYSICS | Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura | “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources” |
CHEMISTRY | Eric Betzig, Stefan W.Hell and William E.Maerner | “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy” |
MEDICINE | John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edward I. Moser | for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain” |
LITERATURE | Patrick Modiano | “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation” |
PEACE | Kailash Satryarthi and Malala Yousafzai | “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education” |
ECONOMICS | Jean Tirole | for his analysis of market power and regulation” |