Nobel 2014 at a glance
Peace
Children's rights activisits Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of
India are the 2014 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their struggle
against the suppression of children and young people and for the right
of all children to education.
Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Japanese Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".
Medicine
American-British scientist John O’Keefe and husband-and-wife team May-Britt and Edvard Moser have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 for discovering an ‘inner GPS’ in the brain.
Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 is awarded to the French writer Patrick Modiano
“for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable
human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”.
Economics
French economist Jean Tirole
has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for economics for his work on how to
"tame" the big businesses that dominate public monopolies like railways,
highways and telecommunications.
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