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Nobel Prize Laureate List for 2008

This is Very Important GK Update for the competitive Exams. Make sure that you remember these names for your next competitive exam and interview.

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Noble Laureates for the year 2008

Physics:

1. Yoichiro Nambu

“for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”

1. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa

“for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”

Chemistry:

1. Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien

“for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”

Physiology or Medicine:

1. Harald zur Hausen

“for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer”   Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier “for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus” 

Literature:

1. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”

Peace:

1. Martti Ahtisaari

“for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts”

Prize in Economics:

1. Paul Krugman

“for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”

Suggested Reading:

1. Nobel Prize Winners from India

2. Nobel Prize on Wikipedia

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