Nobel Prize | MCQs

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The International Committee of the Red Cross was declared the winner of the Peace Prize both in 1917 and in 1944. 

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Dr. Abdus Salam was Born in Jhang Punjab: Jan. 29, 1926

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union (EU)

"for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe."

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Han Kang has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Han Kang is an author from South Korea. 

She awarded nobel prize for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 was awarded to the Jon Fosse.

He is an author of Norway. 

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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

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

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About Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2024

Co-Winners: Victor Ambros & Gary Ruvkun (American Scientists)

They are awarded for discovery of microRNA, which helps determine how cells develop and function

miscroRNA plays a key role in regulating gene activity.

Additional Information About Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023

Co-winners: Katalin Kariko (Hungary) & Drew Weissman (USA) 

For their work which helped develop Covid vaccines in early 2020

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Marie Curie has been honored twice, with the Nobel Prize

in Physics in 1903 ` 

the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.

Born: November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Poland

Died: July 4, 1934, Passy, France

Buried: April 20, 1995, Panthéon, Paris, France

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. Sharpless and Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry – click chemistry – in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Bertozzi has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilizing it in living organisms.

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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