List of Nobel Prize Winners 2015

1. The Nobel Prize Winners 2015 in Chemistry

Tomas Lindahl – Sweden.
Paul Modrich – United States.
Aziz Sancar –  Turkey.
Why Given – The all above mentioned people get Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 for “mechanistic studies of DNA repair”.

2. The Nobel Prize Winners 2015 in Physics

Takaaki Kajita – from Japan.
Arthur B. McDonald – from Canada.
Why Given – For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.

3. The Nobel Prize Winners 2015 in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize Winner 2015 in Physiology or Medicine is divided in two parts.
The first half is given to
Youyou Tu – from China,
Why Given – For her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.
And the second half is given to
William C. Campbell – from Ireland.
Satoshi Ōmura – from Japan.
Why Given -for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.

4. The Nobel Prize Winner 2015 in Literature

Svetlana Alexievich – From Belarus.
Why given – For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.

5. The Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2015

National Dialogue Quartet
Why given – For its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.

6. The Nobel Prize Winner 2015 in Economic Sciences

Angus Deaton – from United Kingdom.
Why given – For his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

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