Nobel Prize 2015: And The Winners Are!!

Nobel Prizes are one of the important event of the year and the whole world waits for the result. And in recent few days the Nobel Prize winners were declared by the committee. Seeing the importance of the topic and the probability of appearing in the examination, we are providing you the winners list and the reason for them to win the prize. So do read it as per exam point of view.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" and the other half to Youyou Tu "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria".

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".

The Nobel Peace Prize 2015

The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 was awarded to 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".

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 was awarded to Angus Deaton "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare".

-Source, www.nobelprize.org

Quiz Based On Nobel Prizes

1. The first Nobel Prize was awarded in which year?
Ans. 1901

2. How many laureates and organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2015?
Ans. 874 Laureates and 26 Organizations

3. How many Nobel laureates declined the prize citing reasons since 1901?
Ans. Two (Jean-Paul Sartre and Le Duc Tho)

4. How many Nobel Prizes were awarded before 1974?
Ans. Ans. Twice ( Dag Hammarskjöld (Nobel Peace Prize 1961) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize in Literature 1931))

5. How many Nobel laureates won the Nobel Prize who were Indian citizens at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize?
Ans. Ans. Five (Rabindranath Tagore, C. V. Raman, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen, Kailash Satyarthi)