Nobel prize winners 2014

Economics

French economist Jean Tirole won the

2014 economics Nobel Prize for his

analysis of market power and regulation,

the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

said on Monday.

Peace Kailash Satyarthi, 60-year-old child rights activist

from Madhya Pradesh, and Malala Yousafzai,

who has risked her life to wage a campaign for

girls’ education in Pakistan, are the joint winners

of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Literature

Patrick Modiano of France

Jewishness, the Nazi occupation and loss

of identity are recurrent themes in the

novels of the 69-year-old author.

Chemistry

Eric Betzig, William Moerner, Stefan Hell

win Chemistry Nobel

The three scientists were cited for “the

development of super-resolved

fluorescence microscopy,” which the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said

had bypassed the maximum resolution of

traditional optical microscopes

Physics

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji

Nakamura win physics Nobel

Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of

Japan and U.S. scientist Shuji Nakamura

won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday

for the invention of blue light-emitting

diodes a new energy efficient and

environment-friendly light source.

Medicine

U.S.-British scientist John O’Keefe and

Norwegian married couple May—Britt

Moser and Edvard Moser won the Nobel

Prize in medicine on Monday for

discovering the brain’s positioning system.