Nobel Prizes 2018

Nobel Prizes 2018
  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018- James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo- For their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.
  • Arthur Ashkin -For groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.
    1)  Gérard Mourou - For the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.
    2)  Donna Strickland- For their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.
    3)  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018-
  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018.
    1)  Frances H. Arnold- For the directed evolution of enzymes.
    2)  George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter- For the phage display of peptides and antibodies.

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018- The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature has been postponed.
  • The Nobel Peace Prize 2018-
    1)  Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad- For their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018-
    1)  William D. Nordhaus- For integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis.
    2)  Paul M. Romer- For integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.

Source
The Hindu.
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 12th Oct 2018
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