Sahaana Vijay Abstract Every year, in the month of December, Nobel Prizes are awarded to ‘those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind’ in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology/Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics, in keeping with Alfred Nobel’s will. This article will discuss the 2021 Physics Nobel prize and …
Overview According to the will, the Nobel Peace Prize was to be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.” Journalists from the Philippines and Russia, whose works …
Fig. 1, taken from Hindustantimes.com Background The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to chemists Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan of Frankfurt, Germany, and Bellshill, Scotland, respectively. List and MacMillan had developed a new way to construct molecules through a process known as asymmetric organocatalysis, a novel form of catalysis. This revolutionary finding …
Abdulrazak Gurnah, zanzibar-born novelist and recently retired literature professor, Has Won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday morning. His well deserved win comes decades after the last black winner, Toni Morrison in 1993.[1] As the first African to win the award in more than a decade, some spectators deemed his win long overdue after …
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Abstract The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is an economics prize given out by the Nobel Foundation. Although not technically a Nobel Prize, which was established by Alfred Nobel\’s will in 1895, the Prize in Economic Sciences is identified …
Abstract The Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine is awarded by the Nobel assembly [1] for extra-ordinary inventions in physiology and medicine. The Nobel Prize is basically awarded to “those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”, according to Alfred Nobel’s will in1895. The Nobel Prize is basically awarded for …
