Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2014 Nobel Peace Prize

Satyarthi, from India, has campaigned against child labour for decades.

10 October 2014 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2014 Nobel Prize in Literature

The French novelist's work often returns to Paris during the German occupation and to the search for lost identities.

9 October 2014 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Light microscopes were long thought unable to see anything smaller than half the wavelength of light.

8 October 2014 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2014 Nobel Prize in Physics

Red and green LEDs had existed for decades, but blue proved far harder to make.

7 October 2014 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

O'Keefe discovered "place cells" in the brain in 1971, and the Mosers discovered "grid cells" in 2005.

6 October 2014 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Fama showed that share prices are hard to predict in the short term, while Shiller found they can be predicted over longer periods.

14 October 2013 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2013 Nobel Peace Prize

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, oversees the treaty banning chemical weapons.

11 October 2013 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Canadian writer is celebrated for short stories set largely in small-town Ontario.

10 October 2013 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The three chemists combined classical and quantum physics in computer models that can simulate complex chemical reactions, now a standard tool in chemistry.

9 October 2013 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

Englert and Higgs, working separately in 1964, proposed a mechanism that gives particles their mass.

8 October 2013 · Source: The Nobel Prize