EVENT OF THE MONTH: OCTOBER 2013

NOBEL PRIZE 2013

Nobel Prizes of 2013 were announced over several days beginning from October 7. This year, the award for Physiology or Medicine was announced on October 7; the award for Physics was announced on October 8; the award for Chemistry was announced on October 9; the award for Peace was announced on October 12; and the award for Economic Sciences was announced on October 14. The awards announcements were webcast live on NobelPrize.org. The prizes will be distributed in December at a formal ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden while the Peace Prize will be awarded in Oslo, Norway. 

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Canada's Alice Munro, often called "Canada's Chekhov". Notable works: 'The Moons of Jupiter',  'The Progress of Love' and 'Runaway'.

NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY:  Martin Karplus of the University of Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University; Michael Levitt of the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS: Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium.

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE:  Americans James E. Rothman of Yale and Randy W. Schekman of the University of California and German-American Dr. Thomas C. Sudhof of the Stanford University School of Medicine. 

Link: http://www.nobelprize.org