Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Their discoveries explain how cells package and deliver molecules such as hormones to the right place at the right time.

7 October 2013 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Their work on matching explains how to pair students with schools, doctors with hospitals and kidney donors with patients.

15 October 2012 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2012 Nobel Peace Prize

The committee said the European Union had helped transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace, even as it faces a severe economic crisis.

12 October 2012 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

Mo Yan, a pen name meaning "don't speak", is the author of novels including Red Sorghum.

11 October 2012 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

G-protein-coupled receptors sit in the walls of cells and respond to hormones, light and smells.

10 October 2012 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2012 Nobel Prize in Physics

The two physicists found ways to trap and study individual particles of light and matter without destroying their quantum properties.

9 October 2012 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Gurdon showed in the 1960s that the nucleus of a mature frog cell could be used to create a new frog, and Yamanaka found in 2006 how to turn adult cells back into stem cells.

8 October 2012 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Sargent and Sims developed methods to show how economic policy, such as changes in interest rates, affects the wider economy, and how expectations shape the outcome.

10 October 2011 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Their research showed why banks are important and why they can collapse.

10 October 2011 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2011 Nobel Peace Prize

Johnson Sirleaf is the president of Liberia and Africa's first elected female head of state, Gbowee led a women's peace movement in Liberia, and Karman is a leading figure in Yemen's pro-democracy...

7 October 2011 · Source: The Nobel Prize