Nobel Peace PrizeOrganisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineJames Rothman, Randy Schekman, Thomas C. Südhof(for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells) |
Nobel Prize in PhysicsPeter Higgs, François Englert(\u201Cfor the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider\u201D) |
Nobel Prize in ChemistryMartin Karplus, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel(for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems) |
Nobel Prize in LiteratureAlice Munro(master of the contemporary short story) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesEugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, Robert J. Shiller(for their empirical analysis of asset prices) |