Nobel Prize 2013

[The Final Track]

With five out of the six prizes revealed (the economy prize winner(s) will be revealed Monday), and probably the heaviest weighing award, the peace prize, awarded today, what are your thoughts?

 

The winners (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/year/?year=2013)

 

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 - François Englert and Peter W. Higgs

"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 Collide

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 - Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel

"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

 

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 - James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof

 

"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"

 

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 - Alice Munro

"master of the contemporary short story"

 

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 - Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"

 

Article about the peace prize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24490925