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”