Nobel Prizes 2015 winners list

Question 1: Who has won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015?

Answer: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald  for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. Takaaki Kajita belongs to Japan while Arthur B. McDonald was born in Canada.

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Question 2 Who is the winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2015?

Answer: National Dialogue Quartet (Tunisia). He won this prize for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.

Question 3 Who has been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015?

Answer: Angus Deaton, who is associated with Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA was awarded the 2015 award for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

Question 4 List the people who were awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015?

Answer: Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar jointly awarded for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

Question 5 Who is the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2015?

Answer: Svetlana Alexievich ( Belarus ).

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Who among the following Nobel laureates has recently announced to put his Nobel Medal under auction?

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Question 123 Who among the following Nobel laureates has recently announced to put his Nobel Medal under auction?

A) Kailash Satyarthi
B) JD Watson
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Jody Williams

Answer: JD Watson

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Four People Have Won the Nobel Prize Twice GK short Trick

Four People Have Won the Nobel Prize Twice GK short Trick

ऐसे व्यक्ति जिन्हे दो बार नोबेल प्राइज मिला

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John Bardeen in Physics
Frederick Sanger in Chemistry
Marie Curie in Physics and Chemistry
Linus Pauling in Chemistry and Peace
These four people are the two times nobel prize winner.

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Waksman got the Noble prize for the discovery of

Question 57 Waksman got the Noble prize for the discovery of:

A> Streptomycin
B> Neomycin
C> Penicillin
D> Chloromycetin

Answer:  Streptomycin

Explanation: In 1952, Selman Waksman was awarded Noble prize for his discovery of Streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.

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Question 58 The oldest form of composition of Hindustani vocal music is

A> Thumri
B> None of the options
C> Dhrupad
D> Ghazal

Answer: Dhrupad

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Winner of the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2013

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Question 164 Nobel Prizes are distributed annually at

A) Manila

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C) Geneva

D) New York

Answer: Stockholm, Sweden

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Sir CV Raman was awarded Nobel Prize for his work on

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D) Sanchi
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John Forbes Nash, Jr. - A Beautiful Mind will be remembered forever

John Nash Nobel Laureate

John Forbes Nash, Jr. who died on May 23, 2015 had been a great American Mathematician.He did a lot of work in Mathematics, specially on game theory.He is known for Nash equilibrium, Nash embedding theorem, Nash functions, Nash–Moser theorem. He won many awards in his life including John von Neumann Theory Prize(1978), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994), Abel Prize (2015).

He authored a book Essays on Game Theory. A Beautiful Mind (1998) is the biography of  John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University. 

On May 23, 2015, At the age of 86, He died in a road accident. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the death of noted mathematician John Nash, saying the "intellectual powerhouse" will be remembered forever.