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Jean Tirole wins Nobel Prize for Economics -2014

October 15, 2014

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Jean Tirole “for his analysis of market power and regulation”.  He will be awarded prize money of 8 mn Swedish krona. Jean Tirole is the second Frenchman to have been awarded a ..

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Nobel Peace Prize 2014

October 11, 2014

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai for their “struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” The Committee specifically pointed ..

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Nobel Prize Literature 2014

October 11, 2014

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 has been awarded to the French author, 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”. The last ..

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Chemistry Nobel Prize 2014

October 10, 2014

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the year 2014 is being awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”. For years, ..

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Nobel Prize for Physics 2014

October 9, 2014

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced its decision to award the Nobel Prize for Physics to 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 ..

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Nobel Prize Medicine winners 2014

October 8, 2014

John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser have won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for their work which has led to discovering the brain’s internal positioning system. About Nobel Prize in Medicine The Nobel award for medicine ..

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All unfilled chemical munitions of Syria destructed: OPCW

December 8, 2013

As per Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), all of Syria’s unfilled munitions have been destroyed. The United Nations and OPCW teams are working in tandem in Syria with an aim to remove the most toxic chemicals from ..

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Nobel laureate Doris Lessing passed away

November 20, 2013

Doris Lessing (94), one of the UK’s most-influential writer and a Nobel Literature laureate passed away. Doris Lessing: Born: October 22, 1919, in Kermanshah, Iran British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Authored more than 80 books, including ..

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Swedish envoy unviels ‘Nobel Memorial Wall’ in Kolkata

October 29, 2013

Commemorating the centenary of legendary polymath Rabindranath Tagore (Gurudev) receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Swedish Ambassador Harald Sandberg inaugurated the Nobel Memorial Wall, a permanent structure set up in the Kolkata’s Esplanade Metro Railway station, where portraits of the ..

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First Genesis Prize "Jewish Nobel Prize" to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

October 24, 2013

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been selected for the inaugural Genesis Prize – an award popularly dubbed the Jewish Nobel Prize given by the Government of Israel. Bloomberg has been chosen for the award in recognition to ..

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