Nobel Prize-2015

Noble Prize 2015

Question: The organization National Dialogue Quarter (NDQ) wins 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for its decisive contribution in building pluralistic democracy, this organization belongs to which country?

a. Syria
b. Tunisia
c. Yemen
d. Libya

Ans (b)

Related Facts:

  • World’s most prestigious Award “Nobel Prize 2015” has announced for the year 2015 in the month of October.
  • Nobel Prizes 2015 was announced by the Nobel Assembly from 5 October to 12 October 2015. The prizes were announced in different sections, namely Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Literature, Peace and Economics.
  • Nobel Prizes are established in 1895 in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel.
  • The Nobel Prize is given from the 10 lakh pounds permanent fund that world famous scientist and inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Nobel had established.
  • The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.
  • The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established by Sweden’s central bank in 1968 on   its 300th
  • This award is funded by the Bank of Sweden.
  • All Nobel laureates will receive the prize on December 10, 2015 on the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death.
  • The prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the peace prize which is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

List of Nobel Prize Winners 2015

Nobel Prize for Medicine:

  • Three scientists Youyou Tu (China), Satoshi Omura (Japan) and William Campbell (Ireland) have won 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
  • William Campbell and Satoshi Omura: Both biochemists have won half of the Nobel Prize for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.
  • Youyou Tu: She was awarded the other half of the prize for discovering artemisinin (also known as Qinghaosu) a drug that has reduced malaria deaths and has become the mainstay of fighting the mosquito-borne disease. She is the 13th woman to win Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine and became first Chinese woman laureate.

Nobel Prize in Physics:

  • Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald (Canada) have jointly won the prestigious 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • They jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry:

  • Tomas Lindahl (United Kingdom), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (US) have jointly won 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • They jointly awarded with the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for having mapped how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information at a molecular level.

Nobel Prize in Literature:

  • Journalist and prose writer Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus has been selected for prestigious 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • She won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,”.

Nobel Peace Prize:

  • Nobel Peace Prize 2015 awarded to Tunisian mediator group, National Dialogue Quartet (NDQ).
  • NDQ is given for its decisive contribution in building pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the 2011 Jasmine Revolution.
  • NDQ consists following 4 organizations:

Tunisian civil society

Tunisian General Labour Union

Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts

Tunisian Human Rights League

Tunisian Order of Lawyers

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences:

  • Angus Deaton, a British economist, has won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics.
  • He has awarded “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

Reference:

http://www.nobelprize.org/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/year/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/
http://www.nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/

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