NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS OF THE YEAR 2016 (Colleted by Sivadas Master Pazhampilly)

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS OF THE YEAR 2016

(Colleted by Sivadas Master Pazhampilly)   

 

 

ALFRED NOBEL

Nobel Prize winners of the year 2016  were revealed throughout the first two weeks of October. Here are the details:

 

The  Nobel Prize in physiology ( medicine) was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Tokyo Institute of Technology. It was for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.

 

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to David Thouless (of the University of Washington), Duncan Haldane (of Princeton University) and Michael Kosterlitz (of Brown University) for their theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.

  

 

The Nobel Prize in chemistry  was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage (of the University of Strasbourg), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (of Northwestern University) and Bernard Feringa (of the University of Groningen) for their discoveries in  the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

 

 

The Nobel Prize for Peace  was awarded to Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to 6 million people.

 

 

The economics science prize in memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Oliver Hart (of Harvard University) and (Bengt Holmström of Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for their contributions to contract theory.

 

 

 

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Bob Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.