Nobel Prize Winners 2013

The Nobel Prize Awards for this year were recently awarded. Almost every day last week, an award was announced in each of the following categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology/ Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. According to NobelPrize.org, the award for Medicine was given out on Monday; it went to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C Sϋdhof, “for [their] discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.” The award in Physics, given out on Tuesday, went to Peter Higgs and FranҫoisEnglert, for theorizing the existence of the Higgs-Boson, often referred to as the “god-particle.” Chemistry, announced on Wednesday, was given to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and ARichWarshel, “for development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.” Peace, given on Friday, went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), “for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.” Economic Sciences was announced last Monday, and it went to Eugene F. Farna, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert J. Shiller, “for their empirical analysis of asset prices.” Then Literature, which had no preset defined date, went to Alice Munro, who was called the “Master of the Contemporary Short Story.”  Congratulations to all the winners, as the Nobel Prizes are some of the most prestigious awards on Earth. The winners will be given their official awards in December.

-Kevin Brown