NOBEL PRIZES Flashcards

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In how many fields are Nobel prizes announced?

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6

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2
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Physics Nobel prize winners

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Anne L Huillier
Pierre Agostini
Ferrnc Krausz

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3
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Discovery of physics Nobel prize winners

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For experimental methods that generate ATTOSECOND pulses if light

For study of ELECTRON DYNAMICS in matter

1 ATTOSECOND- 1Quintillionth of a second or 10^=18

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Physics winners belonging

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L Huillier- LUND UNIVERSITY (Sweden)..only the 5th woman to win a physics Nobel

Pierre Agostini- OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (us)

Prof. Ferenc Kraus - MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF QUANTUM PHYSICS (GERMANY)

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1st lady to win a Nobel prize for physics?

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Marie curie

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6
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2022 award for research into quantum mechanics

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Alian Aspect
John Clauser
Austrian Anton Zeilinger

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1sr Nobel prize in physics given to?

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Wilhelm Rontgen for X ray RADIATION

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8
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Nobel prize for Chemistry

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Awarded to
MOUNGI G BAWENDI
LOUIS E BRUS
ALEXEI I EKIMOV

For the invention of - QUNATUM DOTS

Used in medical imaging to guide surgeons, in better targetting of cancer drugs and in solar panels

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1st person credited with discovering quantum dots in the @980s

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Russian physict ALEXEI I EKIMOV

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Which person is responsible for inventing a method for making custom - made quantum dots, expanding their potential commercial and scientific applications

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Paris -born MOUNGI G. BAWENDI

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2022 chemistry award

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Carolyn R Bertozzi
Morten Medal
K Barry Sharpless

For the develops of click chemistry and biooorthogonal chemistry.

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1st NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY WENT TO?

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Jacobs Henricus Van’t Hoff

(For the discovery of the laws of CHEMICAL DYNAMICS AND OSMOTIC PRESSURE IN SOLUTIONS?

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13
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Award winners of PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE

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Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman

For discoveries in - ENABLING DEVELOPEMENT OF EFFECTIVE. mRNA VACCINNESS AGAINST COVID-19

*Hungarian born and Dree Weissman is an AMERICAN PHYSICIAN

They published the key finding in2005

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14
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2022 Nobel prize for physiology?

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Svante Paabo on his work for human evolution

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15
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1st person to get Nobel prize in medicine

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EMIL ADOLF VON BEHRING
for discovery of (serum therapy)

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16
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Winners of LITERATURE

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Given to - JON FOSSE

For his innovative llay and prose which gave voice to the unsayable

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17
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2022 winner in literature

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ANNIE ERNAUX

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18
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1st winner of literature

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SULLY PRUDHOMME

19
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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS

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Iranian right activist - NARGES MOHAMMADI

For her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and promote human rights and freedom for all

10 yr jail in evin prison in Iran’s capital TEHRAN

20
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2022 Nobel peace prize awards

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ALES BIALIATSKI FROM BELARUS

RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATION (memorial)

UKRAINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATION CENTRE for civil liberties.

21
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1st People to get NOBEL PRIZE IN PEACE

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Frederic Passy and Henry Dunant

22
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People who got ECONOMIC SCIENCES

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American ECONOMIC Historian CLAUDIA GOLDIN

For having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes

She is currently the HENRY LEE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Only 3rd woman to receive the prize

1st to not share it with the male colleagues

23
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1st woman to win the economics prize

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Ellinor Ostrom(2009)

24
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2019 economic prizes

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Esther Duflo shared the award with her husband ABHIJIT BANERJEE and MICHAEL KREMER

25
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2022 economic prizes

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Ben S. bernake

Douglas W.Diamond

Philip H. Dubvig

26
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1st economic prizes awardees

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Ragnar Frisch
Jan Tinbergen

27
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When we’re economic science prizes was added to Nobel prizes

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1968 was added by SWEDEN’S CENTRAL BANK

awarded to people who have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind in previous 12 months

28
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When we’re Nobel prizes created

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By Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will

29
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When we’re the first Nobel prize awards were presented

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1901

30
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Who presents awards for physics,chemistry and economic sciences

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ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

31
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1st INDIAN to receive the Nobel prize

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE

32
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Literature award is presented by which a academy?

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The Swedish Academy

33
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Which institute constitutes awards for PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE

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Nobel assembly at the Karilinska Institute

34
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Which committee awards the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AWARD

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Norwegian Nobel Committee

35
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Where are these NOBEL prizes given?

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They are presented in NORWAY while others are handed out in SWEDEN

36
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On what date are the prizes presented at the ceremonies

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On 10th December the anniversary of NOBEL’S DEATH in STOCKHOLM and OSLO

37
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The recipient of each prize receives what?

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A NOBEL DIPLOMA
A NOBEL MEDAL
A CASH PRIZE OF 10m SWEDISH KRONA - which is split if more than one

Can be shared upto 3 people

It can’t be awarded after death

38
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When did BARACK OBAMA won the Nobel Peace Prize ?

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2009

39
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When did MALALA YOUSAFZAI won the award

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2014

40
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When did EUROPEAN UNION won the Nobel prize

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FOR PEACE IN 2012

41
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UN and it’s general secretary KOFI ANNAN

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Shared 2001

42
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Other notable

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MOTHER TERESEA(1979)
ALBERT EINSTEIN(1921)
MARIE CURIE..physics(1903) chem(1911)
Harold Printer (literature 2005)

43
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India and Nobel prize

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1st Indian Nobel laureate -RABINDRANATH TAGORE ( 1913)

1st Indian women Nobel laureate -MOTHER TERESA(1979)

Experimental approach to alleviating global poverty - ABHIJEET BANERJEE(ECONOMIC SCIENCES.2019)