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Friday, October 10, 2008

Nobel Prize winners 2008 Quiz

The Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine 2008

1.Harald zur Hausen--Germany--for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer--- will receive 1/2 of the total prize money.
2.Françoise Barré-Sinoussi--France--for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus--will receive 1/4 of the total prize money.
3.Luc Montagnier--France--for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus--will receive 1/4 of the total prize money.

The Nobel Prize winners in Physics 2008

1.Yoichiro Nambu--USA--for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics--will receive 1/2 of the total prize money.

2.Makoto Kobayashi--Japan--for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature--will receive 1/4 of the total prize money.

3.Toshihide Maskawa--Japan--for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature--will receive 1/4 of the total prize money.

The Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry 2008

1.Osamu Shimomura--Japan--for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP--will receive 1/3 of the total prize money.

2.Martin Chalfie--USA--for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP--will receive 1/3 of the total prize money.

3.Roger Y. Tsien--USA--for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP--will receive 1/3 of the total prize money.

The Nobel Prize winner in Literature 2008


1.Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio--France--author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner 2008


1.Martti Ahtisaari--Finland--for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.

The Nobel Prize winner in Economics 2008


1.Paul Kruggmann--USA