🟢Nobel prize 2020 winners Names:-

Jennifer A. Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Andrea Ghez, Reinhard Genzel, Roger Penrose, Louise Gluck, Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson, World Food Programme (WFP), Charles M. Rice, Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton included in Nobel prize 2020 winners list

🟢Nobel prize:–

In the memory of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prize is awarded every year by the Nobel Foundation to people and institutions doing extraordinary work since 1901. The Nobel Prize is awarded in six different fields and each Nobel Prize is awarded by a separate committee.

🟢Fields in which Nobel Prize Given:-

Nobel prize is given in the fields of peace, literature, physics, chemistry, medical science, and economics. The Nobel Foundation looks after the administrative work of the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Foundation was established in 1900.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selects the Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. At the same time, the Nobel Assembly in the Caroline Institute, Stockholm, Sweden announces the names of the winners in the field of medicine.

The Nobel Prize in Literature is given by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee elected by the Parliament of Norway.

🟢Alfred Nobel:-

Alfred Nobel was a scientist. Who made about 355 inventions, including the invention of dynamite. Before his death in December 1896, he reserved a large part of his wealth in a trust.

His wish was that the interest of this money should be awarded every year to those people whose work is most beneficial to mankind. With the interest of this amount deposited in the bank of Sweden, the Nobel Foundation is awarded every year for the best contribution to peace, literature, physics, chemistry, medical science, and economics.

🟢Indian who got the Nobel Prize:-

Recipient	Field	Year
Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	1913
Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman	Physics	1930
Hargobind Khurana	Medicine	1968
Mother Teresa	Peace	1979
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Physics	1983
Amartya Sen	Economics	1998
VS Naipaul	Literature	2001
Venkataraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry	2009
Kailash Satyarthi	Peace	2014
Abhijit Banerjee	Economics	2019

🟢Nobel Prize facts:-

The youngest Nobel Laureates:-Malala Yousafzai (Age:-17) Nobel Peace Prize 2014

The oldest Nobel Laureates:-John B. Goodenough(Age:-97) Nobel Chemistry Prize 2019

Nobel Laureates Women in more than one category:-Marie Curie (Physics in 1903,Chemistry in 1911)

Nobel Laureates Men in more than one category:-L. Pauling (Chemistry in 1954,Peace in 1962)

Family Nobel Laureates:-

Married couples	Father & son	Mother & daughter
Marie Curie Pierre Curie	William Bragg Lawrence Bragg	Marie Curie Irene Joliot-Curie
May-Britt Moser Edvard I. Moser	Arthur Kornberg Roger D. Kornberg	Father & daughter
Irene Joliot-Curie Frederic Joliot	Niels Bohr Aage N. Bohr	Pierre Curie Irene Joliot-Curie
Alva Myrdal Gunnar Myrdal	Manne Siegbahn Kai M. Siegbahn	Brothers
Gerty Cori Carl Cori	Hans von Euler-Chelpin Ulf von Euler	Jan Tinbergen Nikolaas Tinbergen
Esther Duflo Abhijit Banerjee	J. J. Thomson George Paget Thomson

🟢Nobel prize 2020 winners list:-

Chemistry

🔸Jennifer A. Doudna (American biochemist) 🔸Emmanuelle Charpentier (French researcher)

On discovering the  approach for genome  editing  and improvement  of CRISPR-Cas9

Physics

🔸Andrea M. Ghez (American astrophysicist) 🔸Reinhard Genzel (German astrophysicist)	On discovering a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy
🔸Roger Penrose (British mathematician)	On discovery of the black hole formation which is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity

Literature

🔸Louise Gluck (American poet)

For his unmistakable poetic speech which universalizes the existence of a man with a sharp beauty

Economic Sciences

🔸Paul R. Milgrom (American economist) 🔸Robert B. Wilson (American economist)

To improve auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.

Peace

🔸World Food Programme (WFP)

For its efforts to combat the increase in global hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic, for contributing to better conditions for peace in conflict-affected regions, and a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict to act as.

Medicine

🔸Charles M. Rice (American virologist) 🔸Harvey J. Alter (American medical researcher) 🔸Michael Houghton (British researcher)

For Hepatitis C virus discovery

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