NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS OF 2013

• The Nobel Prize winners of 2013 in the different categories were announced in the month of October 2013.

• Nobel Prizes are announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every year in the memory of Alfred Nobel.

• The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.

• The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.

• The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was created in 1968.

• The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.

• The prize is not awarded posthumously; however, if a person is awarded a prize and dies before receiving it, the prize may still be presented.

• A prize may not be shared among more than three people.

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The Nobel Prize winners of 2013 :

 

Category	Name of the Person	Contribution
Physiology or Medicine	James Rothman	for their groundbreaking work on how the cell organises its transport system
	Randy Schekman
	Thomas Suedhof
Physics	Peter Higgs	for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.
	Francois Englert
Chemistry	Michael Levitt	for the development of multi scale models for complex chemical systems
	Martin Karplus
	Arieh Warshel
Peace	The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)	for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons
Literature	Alice Munro	master of the contemporary short story
Economics	Eugene Fama	for their work on creating a deeper knowledge of how market prices move
	Lars Peter Hansen
	Robert Shiller