Recently, the Nobel Prizes for the year 2018 have been announced. So, here we are with a complete list of the awards for you all. These will be very beneficial for your upcoming exams like IBPS PO, clerk.
Field
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Winner
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Awarded For
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Physiology or Medicine
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James P Allison (USA) and Tasaku Honjo (Japan)
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“for their discovery of cancer therapy by
inhibition of negative immune regulation”
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Physics
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Arthur Ashkin (USA), Gerard Mourou (France)
and Donna Strickland (Canada) |
Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological
systems” and Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of
generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”.
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Chemistry
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Frances H. Arnold (USA)
and jointly George P. Smith (USA) and Sir Gregory P. Winter (UK) |
Frances H. Arnold for the directed evolution of enzymes"
and George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter "for the phage
display of peptides and antibodies"
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Peace
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Denis Mukwege (Congo) and Nadia Murad (Iraq)
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“for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon
of war and armed conflict”
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Economic Sciences
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William D. Nordhaus (USA)
Paul M. Romer (USA) |
William D. Nordhaus “for integrating climate change into long-run
macroeconomic analysis” and Paul
M. Romer “for integrating
technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.”
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Note: This year no Nobel Prize in Literature has been given due to the widespread “Me too” movement. It is for the first time in 70 Years that no Literature Prize has been given.
