NOBEL PRIZE - 2010

Medicine: Prof. Robert G. Edwards (85), the British scientist whosepioneering research with his late colleague Parick Steptoe led to thebirth of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’ in 1978 has won 2010 - Nobel Prize for medicine. His work has made possible the treatmentof infertility, a medical condition that affects a large proportion ofhumanity including more than 10% of couples worldwide.
Chemistry: Ei-ichi Negishi, Purdue University (USA), Akira Suzuki,Hokkaido University (Japan) and Richard R. Heck, University of Delaware (USA) share the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis. The discoveries have had a great impact on academic research, the development of new drugs and materials and are used in manyindustrial chemical processes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biologically active compounds.

Physics: Andre K Geim and Konstantin S. Novoselov from theUniversity of Manchester (UK) were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prizein Physics for succeeding in producing , isolating, identifying andcharacterizing another form of carbon-graphene. Graphene is a single atomic layer of carbon, is the first two-dimensional
crystalline material that has been identified and analyzed. It is a transparent conductor which is one atom thin.

Literature: Mario Vargas Llosa (74) celebrated Peruvian-Spanishauthor and one of the most renowned novelists of his generation, won 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance,revolt and defeat. Llosa is one of the great Latin American storytellers-a master of dialogue who has been searching for the elusive concept known as the total novel, and who believes in the power of fiction to improve the world.

Peace: Jailed Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo (54) won the Nobel Prize – 2010 for Peace for long and non-violent struggle forfundamental human rights in China since there is a close connection between human rights and peace.

Economics: Americans Peter Diamond (70) and Dale Mortensen (71) and British-Cypriot Christopher Pissarides (62) won the 2010 Nobel Economics prize for developing theories that help explain
How economic policies can affect unemployment.