NOBLE PRIZE 2012

•  Noble prize are given in the memory of Alferd Nobel.
• It is given in six categories:-

1. Medicine
2. Chemistry
3. Physics
4. Literature
5. Economics
6. Peace

• These awards were announced in stockholm, Sweden and oslo,Norway.
• Prize money is Swedish kronur(8 million)
• British researcher John. B. Gourdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won nobel prize in medicine for discovery that mature , specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into blank states that can become any kind of cell.  
• Serge Haroche of france and David.j.Wineland of the US won the nobel prize for work in quantum physics.
• Robert.J.Lefkowitz and Brain.K.Koboka won the nobel prize in chemistry for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals. These are called "G-protein coupled receptors."  
• Chinese autor Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel prize for Literature.

                              57 year old Mo Yan is the first chinese resident to win this prize. Chinese born "Gao Xingjian" was honored in 2000, but he is a french citizen.

•    The 2012 Noble Peace prize was awarded to the European Union(EU) for over six decades contributed to the peace.
• The last organisation to be given the award was Medicins sans frontiers in 1999.
• US scholars Alvin.E.Roth & Lloyd.SShapley shared the 2012 Nobel prize for Economics.

                             It is given for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market designs work.

• Name of Nobel committee President is :- Thorbjoern Jagland.
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