Nobel Prize 2015
|
Field
|
Winners
|
Country
|
Awarded
for
|
|
Medicine /Physiology
|
Mr. William C Campbell
|
USA
|
for "their discoveries
concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm
parasites"
|
|
Mr. Satoshi Omura
|
Japan
|
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Ms. Youyou Tu
|
China
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for "her discoveries concerning
a novel therapy for malaria."
|
|
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Physics
|
Mr. Arthur B McDonald
|
Canada
|
for the discovery of neutrino
oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass
|
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Mr. Takaaki Kajita
|
Japan
|
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Chemistry
|
Mr. Tomas Lindahl
|
UK
(Sweden born)
|
for mechanistic studies of DNA
repair
|
|
Mr. Paul Modrich
|
USA
|
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Mr. Aziz Sancar
|
USA
|
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Literature
|
Ms. Svetlana Alexievich
|
Belarus
|
for her polyphonic writings, a
monument to siffering and courage in our time
|
|
Peace
|
National Dialogue Quartet
|
Tunisia
|
for its decisive contribution to the
building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine
Revolution of 2011
|
|
Economics
|
Mr. Angus Deaton
|
USA
|
for his analysis of consumption,
poverty, and welfare
|
|
Nobel
Prize and Women
|
|
|
Field
|
No
of Women Laureates
|
|
Peace
|
16
|
|
Literature
|
14
|
|
Medicine / Physiology
|
12
|
|
Chemistry
|
04
|
|
Physics
|
02
|
|
Economics
|
01
|
|
Total
|
49
|
India
& Nobel Prizes – a look:
|
#
|
Year
|
Laureates
|
Subject
|
Origin
|
|
|
1902
|
Ronal Ross
|
Medicine
|
Foreign citizens
born in
|
|
1907
|
Rudyard Kipling
|
Literature
|
Foreign citizens
born in
|
|
|
1
|
1913
|
Rabindranath Tagore
|
Literature
|
Citizen of
|
|
2
|
1930
|
C V Raman
|
Physics
|
Citizen of
|
|
3
|
1968
|
Hargobind Khorana
|
Medicine
|
Foreign citizen of
Indian origin
|
|
4
|
1979
|
Mother Teresa
|
Peace
|
Foreign born
citizen of
|
|
5
|
1983
|
Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar
|
Physics
|
Indian-born
American citizen
|
|
6
|
1998
|
Amartya Sen
|
Economics
|
Citizen of
|
|
7
|
2001
|
V S Naipaul
|
Literature
|
Indian descendant
of
|
|
8
|
2009
|
Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan
|
Chemistry
|
Indian born
American Citizen
|
|
9
|
2014
|
Kailash Satyarti
|
Peace
|
Citizen of
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