*** THE WINNERS - 2014 NOBEL PRIZE *** #ECONOMICS : Jean Tirole of Toulouse University, won for his work on market power and regulation, and his work taming powerful firms . #PEACE : Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s rights activist. #LITERATURE : French author Patrick Modiano. #CHEMISTRY : Stefan Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, William Moerner of Stanford University in California, and Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia, “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”. #PHYSICS : Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan, for “the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources ”. #PHYSIOLOGY/MEDICINE : British-US scientist John O’Keefe and married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser from Norway for discovering the brain’s “inner GPS”.
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