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1.The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015- Takaaki Kajita and
Arthur B. McDonald
"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows
that neutrinos have mass".
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2.The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015-Tomas Lindahl,
Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".
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3.The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 -
William C.Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura
"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy
against infections caused by roundworm parasites".
Youyou Tu
"for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against
Malaria".
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4.The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 - Svetlana
Alexievich
"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering
and courage in our time".
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5.The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 National Dialogue
Quartet
"for its decisive contribution to the building of a
pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the
Jasmine Revolution of 2011".
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6.The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 - Angus Deaton
"for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare".
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Q. In how many categories Nobel Prize given ?
Answer - Total 6.
1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Medicine/Physiology
4. Literature
5. Economics
6. Peace.
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Q. Name of prize given in the field of Economics?
Ans - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015.
This award is decided by Norwegian committee.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel was started in 1969.
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Q. Till date how many Nobel prizes have given ?
Answer - Between 1901 and 2015, the Nobel Prizes
and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 573
times to 900 people and organizations. With some
receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a
total of 870 individuals and 23 organizations.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 109
times to 201 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
John Bardeen is the only Nobel Laureate who has been
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and
1972. This means that a total of 200 individuals have
received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 107
times to 172 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
Frederick Sanger is the only Nobel Laureate who has
been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in
1958 and 1980. This means that a total of 171
individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been
awarded 106 times to 210 Nobel Laureates between
1901 and 2015.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 108
times to 112 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 96 times to
129 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015, 103
individuals and 26 organizations. Since the
International Committee of the Red Cross has been
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (in 1917,
1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize two times (in 1954 and 1981), there
are 23 individual organizations which have been
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 47 times to
76 Laureates between 1969 and 2015.
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Q . How many times an Indian had won Nobel prize ?
Answer - India (7)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930-Sir Venkata Raman
"for his work on the scattering of light and for the
discovery of the effect named after him".
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009-Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan
"for studies of the structure and function of the
ribosome".
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902-
Ronald Ross
"for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how
it enters the organism and thereby has laid the
foundation for successful research on this disease and
methods of combating it".
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968-H.
Gobind Khorana
"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its
function in protein synthesis".
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913-Rabindranath
Tagore
"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and
beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he
has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own
English words, a part of the literature of the West".
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2014-Kailash Satyarthi
"for their struggle against the suppression of children
and young people and for the right of all children to
education".
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The Prize in Economic Sciences 1998-Amartya Sen
"for his contributions to welfare economics"
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Pakistan (3)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979-Abdus Salam
"for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak
and electromagnetic interaction between elementary
particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the
weak neutral current".
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983-Subramanyan
Chandrasekhar
"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of
importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
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Malala Yousufzai in 2014 for Peace
