Nobel Prize Facts & Winners in 2015

18 October 2015

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Awarded to : Outstanding contributions for humanity in 6 fields

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Total 4 People & 2 Organisations.
John Bardeen was an American physicist & awarded Nobel Prize in 1956 & 1972.
Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1903and Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has won two Nobel Peace Prizes, once in 1954 and again in 1981.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate in 1917, 1944 & 1963.
Linus Pauling American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator was awarded Nobel in Chemistry in the year 1954 & 1962.
Frederick Sanger was a British Boichemist who won Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice, one of only two people to have done so in the same category (the other is John Bardeen in Physics).

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In the fields of Chemistry,Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901 but the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was established by Sweden’s central bank in 1968.
The prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the peace prize in Oslo, Norway.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; theSwedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded not by a Swedish organisation but by theNorwegian Nobel Committee.

Nobel Prize Winners 2015

#	Field	Winners	Nationality	Contribution
1.	Medicine	William C. Campbell	Ireland	for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.
		Satoshi Omura	Japan
		Youyou Tu	China	for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malari
2.	Chemistry	Tomas Lindhal	Sweden	for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
		Paul Modrich	U.S.A.
		Aziz Sancar	Turkey
3.	Physics	Takaaki Kajita	Japan	for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
3.	Physics	Arthur B. McDonald	Canada
4.	Literature	Svetlana Alexievich	Belarus	for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.
5.	Peace	National Dialogue Quartet	Tunisia	for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.
6.	Economic Sciences	Jean Tirole	France	for his analysis of market power and regulation.