Daily Current Affairs / Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to 2 Journalists, Highlighting Fight for Press Freedom
Category : Awards Published on: October 11 2021
Important Facts
About Nobel Prize 2021: Full List of Winners
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Nobel Prize category |
Winner Name |
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Physics |
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann - for physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and accurately forecasting global warming. Giorgio Parisi - for discovering the interaction of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems ranging from the atomic to the planetary scale. |
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Chemistry |
Benjamin List and David MacMillan - for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. |
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Physiology or Medicine |
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian- for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. |
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Literature |
Abdulrazak Gurnah - for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents. |
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Peace |
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov - for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. |
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