Nobel Prize Winners 2009

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Nobel Prize Winners 2009

October 10th, 2009Posted inGeneral Knowledge

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Here is the list of all Nobel Award Laureates for the year 2009. Will help you all prepare

for the Current GK section of various exams. Do not forget to read more about it.

I. Literature

Herta Mller (German)

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She is a German novelist, born in Romanian. She has been awarded for her poetic andprose writings. She writes about the hardships faced under Communist Romania, the

history of the Germans in Banat, and the persecution of Romanian ethnic Germans by

Stalinist Soviet occupying forces in Romania.

II. Physics

1. Charles Kao

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A Chinese physicist who proposed using fibre optics in telecommunications. He is alsocalled the father of fibre optic communications

2. Willard Boyle

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He is a Canadian physicist who co-invented the charge-coupled device (CCDs) used in

digitizing images (scanners, cameras etc use CCDs).

3. George Smith

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He is an American scientist who co-invented CCDs with Willard Boyle at Bell Labs in1969.

III. Medicine
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1. Elizabeth Blackburn:

Australia born American Scientist. She Conducted ground-breaking research on DNA

(deoxyribonucleic acid) and cell division that has provided a new line of inquiry into the

chemical bases of life. She helped in discovery of a key enzyme, telomerase, which is

necessary for chromosomes to make copies of themselves before cell division. Thisdiscovery will have lasting impact on cancer cure.

2. Carol W Greider

An Americam molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University. She helped co-discover

telomerase, an enzyme that maintains the length and integrity of telomeres.

3. Jack W. Szostak

London born Canadian A biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

He was awarded for his contributions to the field of genetics.

IV. Chemistry

1. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, He is a structural biologist at the Laboratory ofMolecular Biology of the Medical Research Council located in Cambridge, England. He

has Citizenship of United States.

2. Thomas A. Steitz

He is a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes

Medical Institute, Yale University in the USA

3. Ada E. Yonath

She is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of

ribosome. She is the director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center forBiomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

V. Peace

Barack Obama

He is the current President of the USA. He was awarded for his extraordinary efforts to

strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.


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