Nobel Category | Recipient | For |
Physics | François Englert and Peter W. Higgs | 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. |
Chemistry | Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel | The development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems |
Physiology/ Biology | James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof | Their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells |
Literature | Alice Munro | Master of the contemporary short story |
Economics | Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller | their empirical analysis of asset prices |
Peace | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) | Its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons |
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