List of Nobel Prize Winners 2018 (with Name & Photos), Download PDF!

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Nobel Prize:

Annual awards are given in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics.
First established in 1895 at the will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
All the Prize except Peace Prize awarded at Stockholm, Sweden.
Peace Prize awarded in Oslo, Norway.
The Prize is not awarded posthumously.
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Economic and Science presented by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is presented by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute.
The Nobel Prize for Literature presented by the Swedish Academy.
The Nobel Prize in Peace presented by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Youngest Nobel Laureate- Malala Yousafzai for Peace in 2014.
Oldest Nobel Laureate- Arthur asking for Physics in 2018.

Indian Nobel laureates:

Till now, 12 Indians (5 Indian citizens and 7 of Indian origin or residency) have been awarded Nobel Prize
The first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore for his works "Gitanjali" in 1913.
First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics was C. V. Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him" in 1930.
First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize for Peace was Mother Teresa in 1979.
First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics was Amartya Sen in 1998.
First Indian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was Har Gobind Khorana for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis in 1968.
First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry was Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome in 2009.
The only woman from India in the list of Nobel Prize recipient is Mother Teresa.

Nobel Prize Winners 2018

Prize	Winners	Purpose
Chemistry	Frances Arnold, George Smith, Greg Winter (Left to Right)	Frances H. Arnold "for the directed evolution of enzymes". George P. Smith & Sir Gregory P. Winter "for the phage display of peptides and antibodies."
Economics	William Nordhaus, Paul Romer (Left to Right)	William Nordhaus “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis”. Paul Romer “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis”.
Literature	Will not be Awarded this time	-
Medicine	Tasuku Honjo, James P. Allison (Left to Right)	'For their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation'.
Peace	Nadia Murad, Denis Mukwege (Left to Right)	Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
Physics	Donna Strickland, Gérard Mourou, Arthur Ashkin (Left to Right)	Arthur Ashkin is credited with having invented what is famously known as “optical tweezers”. Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, developed a technique that has made it possible to generate most intense laser pulses that are now used in a wide variety of scientific and medical applications, including in eye surgeries.