Noble Prize Winners 2014

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENTS

  •  Medicine: John O’Keefe, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser.
  •  Physics: On October 7.
  •  Chemistry: On October 8.
  •  Literature: On October 9.
  •  Peace: On October 10.
  •  The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences: On October 13. 
List of 2013 Nobel Prize winners
For Medicine and Physiology: James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, Thomas C. Südhof
The Nobel committee said their research on “vesicle traffic” the transport system of our cells helped scientists understand how “cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time” inside cells.
For Physics: François Englert, Peter W. Higgs
They were awarded the prize for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.
For Chemistry: Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel
The Nobel Prize was awarded to them for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. 
For Literature: Alice Munro
Canadian writer Alice Munro, a thorough, but forgiving documenter of the human spirit, won the Nobel Prize in literature for being a “master of the contemporary short story."
For Peace: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was awareded the peace prize “for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons”.
For Economics: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013 was awarded to them " for their empirical analysis of asset prices."


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