Winner of Nobel Prize 2010

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Nobel Peace PrizeWinner 2010 :

Liu XiaoboI

In Oslo, it was announced that

Chinese acvist and writer Liu Xi-

aobo has won a Nobel Peace

Prize. It has been reported that

the writer and acvist was cho-

sen for the award because of his

constant bale for human rights.

The commiee who chose the

winners of the awards stated that

there is a close connecon be-

tween peace and human rights,hence Liu being awarded the cov-

eted prize which is worth one

point five million dollars.

The Nobel Prize winner is cur-

rently serving an eleven year

prison sentence for incing sub-

version of state power in China.

The commiee chairman, Thorb-

jorn Jagland said that China was

in breach of several internaonal

convenons such as freedom of

speech as well as

freedom of assem-

bly. This year there

were a record num-

ber of nominaons

for the Nobel Peace

Prize at a staggering

two hundred and

thirty seven. Last

year President Bar-

rack Obama won a

Nobel Peace Prize

for his extraordi-

nary efforts in

strengthening inter-

naonal diplomacy.

The Nobel Peace

Prize awarded to Liu

Xiaobo is the fih

award in two thousand and ten.The other awards which are for

medicine, physics, chemistry, and

literature were announced to the

public earlier on in the week.

There are usually many nomina-

ons for Nobel Peace Prizes each

year, but this year it was more

than most, as menoned above.

Those lucky enough to win not

only have the privilege of winning

the award, but also the huge

amount of money that comes

with it.

China is of course angry at

the Nobel commiee for award-

ing the presgious award to Liu

Xiaobo. Obama has called on the

chine government to release the

prisoner.

The Nobel Prize inPhysics 2010

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010

was awarded jointly to Andre

Geim and Konstann Novoselov

"for groundbreaking experiments

regarding the two-dimensional

material graphene"

Nobel Prize for medicine

The intensely modest Brish sci-enst who pioneered IVF has

been honoured with a long over-

due Nobel prize for medicine.

Just seven years ago Robert

Edwards joked that he wasnt

bothered about being overlooked

for a knighthood, but a Nobel

would be nice.

Professor Edwards, emeritus

professor of human reproducon

at Cambridge University, was her-

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alded as the creator of modern

reproducve medicine.

His work with gynaecologist and

fellow Briton Dr Patrick Steptoe

led to the birth in July 1978 of

Louise Brown, the worlds first

test tube baby.

Their research came against a

backdrop of significant opposi-

on from the medical and reli-

gious establishments. They

persevered, however, and in vitro

ferlisaon whereby human

eggs are ferlised outside the

body and then implanted in the

womb has since resulted in

4.3million births worldwide.

The Nobel prize commiee inStockholm said Professor Ed-

wardss achievements have

made it possible to treat inferl-

ity, a medical condion afflicng

a large proporon of humanity.

Nobel Literature Prize

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas

Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel

prize for literature. The Nobel

Prize commiee said in a state-

ment Vargas Llosa received the

award "for his cartography of

structures of power and his

trenchant images of the individ-

ual's resistance, revolt and de-

feat".

The 74-year-old writer is the

first South American to win the

Nobel since Colombian magic-re-

alist innovator Gabriel Garcia

Marquez in 1982. Mexico's Oc-

tavio Paz won the prize in 1990.

Like Paz and many other Lan

American authors, Vargas Llosa

has dabbled in polics over the

years. He even ran, unsuccess-

fully, for the the Peruvian presi-

dency in 1990.

From the publicaon of hisfirst novel, 1963 -- The Time of

the Hero, based on his experi-

ences at a Peruvian military acad-

emy, Vargas Llosa is recognized as

a leading figure in the Lan Amer-

ican literature in the second half

of the 20th century.

He has wrien essays, non-

ficon, and ficon in a wide vari-

ety of genres and styles. The

Green House is widely considered

among his best works. It is a non-

chronological account of unrest

in Peru centered on the desert

brothel of the tle.

The bier 1969 novel Conver-

saons in the Cathedral embeds

a crique of the dictatorship of

Peruvian president Manuel Odria

in the story of one man's search

for the truth about his minister

father's role in the murder of a

notorious underworld figure.

In the 2000 novel The Feast

of the Goat (published in the U.S.

in 2002), Vargas Llosa makes a

startlingly unsympathec, Shake-

speare-worthy villain of Rafael

Trujillo, the real-life military des-

pot who ruled the Dominican Re-

public from 1930-61.

Many Americans may knowVargas Llosa best for his 1977

comic novel, Aunt Julia and the

Screenwriter, which was adapted

into American director Jon

Amiel's widely praised movie

Tune in Tomorrow, starring Peter

Falk as a larger-than-life creator

of radio soap operas who manip-

ulates the May-December rela-

onship of a young aspiring

writer (Keanu Reeves) and hisolder, twice-divorced aunt by

marriage (Barbara Hershey).

(EW's Owen Gleiberman said the

film "crackles with romanc

heat.")

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Two Japanese sciensts and an

American researcher won theNobel Prize in Chemistry for de-

veloping chemical reacons that

help create large quanes of or-

ganic substances that can be used

for medicine.

Richard F. Heck of the Univer-

sity of Delaware in Newark,

Delaware, Akira Suzuki, 80, of

Hokkaido University in Sapporo,

Japan, and Ei-Ichi Negishi, 75 of

Purdue University in West

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Lafayee, Indiana, will share the

10 million-kronor ($1.5 million)

award, the Royal Swedish Acad-

emy of Sciences said at a press

conference in Stockholm.

Last years prize in chemistry

went to Venkatraman Ramakrish-

nan, of the United Kingdom;

Thomas A. SteitzThomas A.

Steitz, of the United States; and

Ada E. Yonath, of Israel, for their

work on how the DNA code is

translated into life, findings that

have been used to fight infecousdisease.

Nobel Economic Prize

Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen

Dale Mortensen and Christopher

Pissarides won the 2010 Nobel

Prize in Economics Sciences.

Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen

and Christopher Pissarides re-ceived the 2010 Nobel Prize in

Economics Sciences for their re-

search on efficacy of service and

compensaon model. Peter Dia-

mond had also made contribu-

ons to the labor-market

consideraons along with the

other two sciensts that finally

led them to win the Nobel Prize

for Economic Sciences 2010.

Now that Peter Diamondmarked his name on the Nobel

Prize in economics Shelby must

rethink his objecon. Shelby, in

fact, by no means said that Peter

Diamond was not a good econo-

mist. He actually held that Peter

Diamond has no idea of mone-

tary economics. That too is a fool-

ish idea in itself.

Peter Diamond has analyzed

the foundaons of search mar-kets. Dale Mortensen and

Christopher Pissarides have ex-

panded the theory and have ap-

plied it to the labor market. The

laureates models help us under-

stand the ways in which unem-

ployment, job vacancies, and

wages are affected by regulaon

and economic policy, said the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sci-

ences.

Peter Diamond is seventy

years old. Peter Diamond is an

economics professor at the Mas-

sachuses Instute of Technol-

ogy. Peter Diamond has

conducted many researches on a

wide range of topics.

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