Nobel Prizes Winner 2014

1 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 

Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University, Japan, and Shuji Nakamura of UC Santa Barbara have won for inventing blue light-emitting diodes, ‘a new, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly light source’

Source : http://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2014/oct/07/nobel-prize-physics-2014-stockholm-live

2 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014

Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner

The 2014 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics have been awarded, one for the invention of a new way of seeing microscopic processes in action, and the other for the ubiquitous LED light.

Source : http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20140910-26307.html

3 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014
British-US scientist John O’Keefe and married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser from Norway have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the brain’s “inner GPS”

Source : http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/06/nobel-prize-physiology-medicine-brain-gps

4 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014

French writer Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel prize in literature

The French novelist Patrick Modiano was hailed on Thursday as a Marcel Proust of our time as he was named the 2014 winner of the Nobel prize for literature.

Source : http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/09/nobel-prize-literature-winer-patrick-modiano-hailed-modern-marcel-proust

5 The Nobel prize in peace 2014

Malala Yousafzai win Nobel peace prize 2014 along with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace prize.

Kailash Satyarthi founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan - or the Save the Childhood Movement - in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of 80,000 children.