List Nobel Prize Winners in 2020

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What is Nobel Prize?
The Nobel Prize is a lot of yearly global honors offered in a few classes by Swedish and Norwegian establishments in
acknowledgment of scholastic, social, or logical advances. The desire of the Swedish scientific expert, designer, and
industrialist Alfred Nobel set up the five Nobel prizes in 1895.
In How Many Fields Nobel Prize is Given?
Six Nobel Prizes are awarded every year, one in every one of the accompanying classes: Literature, Physics, Chemistry,
Peace, Economics, and Physiology & Medicine.
Little History on Nobel Prize:
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and confirmation, giving the biggest portion of his fortune to a
progression of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968,
Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s national bank) set up The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred
Nobel.
Nobel Prize 2020 winners list:
List Nobel Prize Winners in 2020

Field Name Contribution
Because of its efforts to combat hunger,

for its contribution to bettering conditions
Peace for peace in conflict-affected areas, and for
World Food Programme acting as a driving force in efforts to
(WFP) prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of
war and conflict.
Roger Penrose won Nobel Prize for the

Literature Louise Glück discovery that black hole the formation is a
robust prediction of the general theory of
relativity.
Roger Penrose won Nobel Prize for the

Roger Penrose discovery that black hole the formation is a
robust prediction of the general theory of
relativity.
Physics a) Reinhard Genzel They won the Nobel Prize for their
b) Andrea Ghez discovery of a supermassive compact
object at the center of our galaxy.
Chemistry a) Emmanuelle Charpentier They developed a method for genome

b) Jennifer A. Doudna editing.
a) Harvey J. Alte Discovered the Hepatitis C virus.

b) Michael Houghton
Medicine
c) Charles M. Rice
Economic a) Paul R. Milgrom For improvements to auction theory and

Sciences b) Robert B. Wilson inventions of new auction formats.
List Nobel Prize Winners in 2019

Field Name Contribution
Peace Abi Ahmed - The Prime For ending the war with Eritrea
Minister of Ethiopia
Discovered an influential work that with

Peter Handke linguistic ingenuity has explored the
Literature periphery and the specificity of human
experience.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was

granted "for contributions to our
understanding of the evolution of the
a) James Peebles universe and Earth's place in the cosmos"
Physics b) Michel Mayor
with one half to James Peebles "for
c) Didier Queloz theoretical discoveries in physical
cosmology", the other half mutually to
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the
discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-
type star."
a) John B. Goodenough The three scientists have all worked to

develop and advance lithium-ion batteries,
now-ubiquitous technology which the
Chemistry b) M. Stanley Whittingham Nobel Assembly said has “laid the
Chemistry foundation of a wireless, fossil-fuel-free

c) Akira Yoshino society.
a) William G. Kaelin For their discoveries of how cells sense and

b) Peter Ratcliffe adapt to oxygen availability
Physiology & c) Gregg L. Semenza
Medicine
a) Abhijit Banerjee For their experimental approach to

b) Esther Duflo alleviating global poverty.
Economics c) Michael Kremer
Nobel Prize Quiz
There are some important Nobel Prize questions and answers that are helpful for those who are preparing for
competitive examinations like SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC MTS, SSC GROUP-D, BANK, UPSC, PSC, RAILWAY GROUP-D,
RAILWAY NTPC, IB, etc. The facts discussed below, often occur in the exams mentioned above.
1. When was Nobel Prize given for the first time?

Ans: The Nobel Prize was given for the first time on 10th December in 1901.
2. Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace for the first time?
Ans: Henry Dunant won the first Nobel Prize for Peace.
3. Who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for the first time?
Ans: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for Physics.
4. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for the first time?
Ans: Sully Prudhomme won the first Nobel Prize for Literature.
5. Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the first time?
Ans: Jacobus Henricus Van‘t Hoff won the first Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
6. Who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology & Medicine for the first time?
Ans: Emil Adolf von Behring won the first Nobel Prize for Physiology & Medicine.
7. Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize?

Ans: Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian and also first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1913.
8. When did C. V. Raman win the Nobel Prize?

Ans: C. V. Raman won Nobel Prize in 1930 for Physics.
9. When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Prize?

Ans: Mother Teresa Nobel Prize in 1979 for Peace.
10. When did Amartya Sen win the Nobel Prize?

Ans: Amartya Sen Nobel Prize in 1998 for Economic Sciences.
11. Who is the oldest Nobel Prize winner?

Ans: Arthur Ashkin became the oldest Nobel Prize winner in 2007.
12. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize?

Ans: Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.

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What is Nobel Prize?

In How Many Fields Nobel Prize is Given?

Little History on Nobel Prize:

Nobel Prize 2020 winners list:

List Nobel Prize Winners in 2020

Because of its efforts to combat hunger,

Roger Penrose won Nobel Prize for the

Roger Penrose won Nobel Prize for the

Chemistry a) Emmanuelle Charpentier They developed a method for genome

a) Harvey J. Alte Discovered the Hepatitis C virus.

Economic a) Paul R. Milgrom For improvements to auction theory and

List Nobel Prize Winners in 2019

Discovered an influential work that with

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was

a) John B. Goodenough The three scientists have all worked to

Chemistry foundation of a wireless, fossil-fuel-free

a) William G. Kaelin For their discoveries of how cells sense and

a) Abhijit Banerjee For their experimental approach to

Nobel Prize Quiz

1. When was Nobel Prize given for the first time?

7. Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize?

8. When did C. V. Raman win the Nobel Prize?

9. When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Prize?

10. When did Amartya Sen win the Nobel Prize?

11. Who is the oldest Nobel Prize winner?

12. Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize?

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