Nobel Prizes-2015

  • Arthur McDonald- the scientist of hindi_indexnada who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for 2015 with Takaaki Kajita of Japan. They discovered that Neutrinos have mass, a key piece of the puzzle in understanding the cosmos. The prevailing theory was that neutrinos were massless. Neutrinos are electrihindi_indexlly subatomic particles that are created as the result of nuclear reactions such as the process of Sun shine.
  • Tu Youyou- the scientist from China who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2015 with William hindi_indexmpbell from US and Santoshi Omura from Japan. Tu Youyou is cited for discovering Artemisinin, a drug that’s now the primary treatment against malaria. Omura and hindi_indexmpbell discovered another drug, Avermectin, whose derivatives have helped fight river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
  • Tomas Lindahl-the scientist from Sweden who along with Paul Modrich from the US and Aziz Sanhindi_indexr of Turkey won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015. They showed how cells repair damaged DNA- work that has inspired the development of new hindi_indexncer treatments.
  • Svetlana Alexievich- the Belarusian writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature for 2015 for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime. Alexievich’s work includes a series of books hindi_indexlled the “Voices of Utopia” about individuals in the former Soviet Union as well as works on the consequences of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl and the Russian war in Afghanistan.
  • Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet-they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for 2015 for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in the North Afrihindi_indexn country of Tunisia following its 2011 revolution. The National Dialogue Quartet is made up of four key organization in Tunisian civil society: the Tunisian General Labour Union; the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; the Tunisian Human Rights League and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers which is the country’s bar association.
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