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The Nobel Prize in
Physics
François
Englert and Peter W. Higgs
"for the
theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of
the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed
through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and
CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"
The Nobel Prize in
Chemistry
Martin
Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel
"for the
development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
The Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine
American James E.
Rothman, American Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof
"for their
discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system
in our cells"
The Nobel Prize in
Literature
Alice Munro
"master of the
contemporary short story"
The Nobel Peace Prize
Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
"for its
extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"
The Sveriges Riksbank
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Three Americans:
Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller
"for their
empirical analysis of asset prices"
Information found on
nobelprize.org, the official website of the nobel prize.
