NOBEL PRIZE 2022 Flashcards
In how many category is Nobel awarded?
Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace
is ECONOMIC SCIENCES considered as Nobel?
Though it was added in 1968 , Prize is officially not a Nobel Prize
* called as “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”
* was established by Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank)
After whose name , is NOBEL PRIZE named?
Alfred Nobel
a Swedish scientist
When was the first Nobel given?
The first Nobel Prize was given on 10 December, 1901
Henry Dunant (Switzerland) and Frédéric Passy (France).
What is the current money given?
$1.1 million per prize
Where they first time distributed?
Stockholm, Sweden
Who choose whom?
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decides the prizes in physics, chemistry, and economic science
- Swedish Royal Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute determines the physiology or medicine award
- Swedish Academy chooses literature
- a committee elected by the Norwegian parliament awards the peace prize
Which indian was awarded the prestigious award due to his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful verse?
Rabindranath Tagore
The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913
First Indian to recieve Nobel
for Geetanjili
Which Indian was awarded the prestigious award ‘for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him’. He discovered the ‘Raman Effect’?
CV Raman
The Nobel Prize in Physics, 1930
Which Indian won the prize ‘For work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace’.?
Mother Teresa
The Nobel Prize in Peace, 1979
Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Studies ‘for his contributions to welfare economics’.?
Amartya Sen
The Nobel Prize in Economic Studies, 1998
Who were jointly awarded the prestigious award ‘for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of children to education’. ?
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
The Nobel Prize in Peace, 2014
Who is the youngest Nobel Laureates ?
Malala Yousafzai
Who is the oldest recipient of this prize in Chemistry 2019 at the age of 97 years.?
John B. Goodenough
WHo is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972.?
John Bardeen
WHo is the only one woman who has been honoured thrice?
Marie Curie
Who is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice?
Frederick Sanger
Which is the only prize that is not presented in Stockholm?
The Peace Prize , presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on December 10, the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel.
Who won in Literature in 2022?
Annie Ernaux
* was born in 1940
* Yvetot in Normandy (France)
* her first book, Cleaned Out
In 2021, the award was given to novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
Her work “The Years” was shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022 was awarded to
given by by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- John F. Clauser,
- Alain Aspect
- Anton Zeilinge
* for their work in quantum mechanics , “Violation of Bells Inequality”*
In 2021, it was awarded to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann (jointly)
Quantum entanglement was first elucidated by
Erwin Schrödinger in 1935
lead to his well-known cat paradox
Who developed the mathematical inequality - Bell Inequality which states that if there are hidden variables, the correlation between the results of a large number of measurements will never exceed a certain value?
John Stewart Bell
Who did who in Physics ?
- John F. Clauser developed John Bell’s ideas, leading to a practical experiment which supported quantum mechanics by clearly violating a Bell inequality
- Alain Aspect developed the setup
- Anton Zeilinger was chosen for his innovative use of entanglement and Bell pairs
2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to
Swedish geneticist “Svante Pääbo”
* research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution
In 2021, the honour went to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian
Who are the the closest relatives of the present-day human species?
Neanderthals
Dr Pääbo’s research has resulted in the rise of a new scientific disciple called
Paleogenomics,
* which is the study and analysis of genes of ancient or extinct organisms.
2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to
- Human Rights Advocate : Ales Bialiatski , Belarus
- Russian Human Rights Organisation : Memorial
- Ukrainian Human Rights Organisation : Center for Civil Liberties
Bialiatski is also credited with founding the organisation ____ in response to the controversial constitutional amendments that gave the president (Alexander Lukashenko) dictatorial powers
Viasna (Spring) in 1996
Memorial was established in
1987
Center for Civil Liberties was founded in
Kyiv in 2007
Who have been awarded the Nobel Prize 2022 in Chemistry?
- Carolyn R Bertozzi
- Morten Meldal
- K Barry Sharpless
Nobel Prize 2022 in chemistry is given for
Click Chemistry and Bioorthogonal Chemistry
?? came up with the term ‘click chemistry’ and worked extensively on it
K Barry Sharpless
?? came up with a special chemical structure called ‘triazole’ which has many significant applications
Morten Meldal
?? took the next step of developing click reactions that could work inside living organisms — ‘bioorthogonal’ reactions
Carolyn R Bertozzi
____ shared the 2001 Nobel Prize with William S. Knowles and Noyori Ryōji for “Developing the First Chiral Catalysts”
K Barry Sharpless
(jii do baar jeeti hai)
Which reactions work inside living organisms without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell?
Bioorthogonal Reactions
Who provided the crown of Click Chemistry- the copper catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition?
Meldal and Sharpless
Who is the Only indian to recieve Nobel in Chemistry?
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , in 2009
with Thomas A Steitz & Ada E. Yonath for “study of Ribosome”
Alfred Nobel ne kya banaya tha?
Dynamite
When was it declared that nobel can be given after death also?
1974
Malala has which country citizenship?
Canada
belongs to Pakistan
Only org. to get Nobel Peace Prize three times
Red Cross
Only Indian to get Nobel in Physiology
Har Govind Khuranna
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to
- Ben S. Bernanke,
- Douglas W. Diamon
- Philip H. Dybvig
first winner was selected in 1969
“for research on banks and financial crises.”
