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•  Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Nobel Prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($902,315), is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• Alain Aspect belongs to France.
• John Clauser belongs to USA
• Anton Zeilinger belongs to Austria

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About Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Co-winners: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

Award given by: Royal Swedish Academy

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist

Geoffrey Hinton is called the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI)

John Hopfield is an American scientist

Additional Information:

They are awarded Nobel Prize for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

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Full Name: Kofi Atta Annan

Born: April 8, 1938, in Kumasi, Ghana

Died: August 18, 2018, in Bern, Switzerland

7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2006)

First black African to hold the post

Major Achievements:

Promoted human rights, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and HIV/AIDS awareness

Played a key role in reforming the UN and promoting global peace

Shared the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with the United Nations

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The first Noble Prize to be awarded to a South Asian was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore  

Year	Image	Laureate	Country at the time of the award	Category	Comment
1913		Rabindranath Tagore	British India	Literature	First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate

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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of thermal and mechanical transducers.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel prize for literature.

The Tanzanian novelist, who is based in the UK, was awarded the prize for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.

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Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman were jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

For their discoveries vaccines against COVID-19

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The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in physics to date is Arthur Ashkin who was 96 years old when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2018.