Physics
List of Nobel Prize Winners in 2013 Prize Recipients:
François Englert
Born: 6 November 1932, Etterbeek, Belgium
Affiliation at the time of the award: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Field: particle physics
Peter W. Higgs
Born: 29 May 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Field: particle physics
Nobel Prize 2013 in Physics has been given for the
theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our
understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which
recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted
fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large
Hadron Collider.
Chemistry
Prize Recipients:
Martin Karplus
Born: 15 March 1930, Vienna, Austria
Affiliation at the time of the award: Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Michael Levitt
Born: 9 May 1947, Pretoria, South Africa
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Arieh Warshel
Born: 20 November 1940, Kibbutz Sde-Nahum, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nobel Prize 2013 in Chemistry has been given for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
Physiology or Medicine
Prize Recipients:
Randy W. Schekman
Born: 30 December 1948, St. Paul, MN, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
James E. Rothman
Born: 3 November 1950, Haverhill, MA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Thomas C. Südhof
Born: 22 December 1955, Goettingen, Germany
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nobel Prize 2013 in Medicine for their discoveries of
machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our
cells.
Literature
Prize Recipients:
Alice Munro
Born: 10 July 1931, Wingham, Canada
Residence at the time of the award: Canada
Language: English
Nobel Prize 2013 in Literature was given for “master of the contemporary short story”.
Peace
Prize Recipients:
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Founded: 1997
Field: arms control and disarmament
The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was given for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.
Economic Science
Prize Recipient:
Eugene F. Fama
Born: 14 February 1939, Boston, MA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Lars Peter Hansen
Born: 26 October 1952, Urbana, IL, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Robert J. Shiller
Born: 29 March 1946, Detroit, MI, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013 given for their empirical analysis of asset prices in the field of Financial Economics.
