2011 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
ECONOMICS PRIZE:
2 Americans win Nobel Prize in economics
2 economics Nobel winners, Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims are old friends
PEACE PRIZE:
3 women's rights pioneers share Nobel Peace Prize. They are:
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman
Peace prize winners honored 'for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women'
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners include, from left, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia,
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia and Tawakkul Karman, a women's rights
activist in Yemen. They were cited for mobilizing peace efforts in their countries and
for working for the rights of women everywhere.
(Photos, from left, courtesy NYTimes, AFP/Getty Images and Reuters)
LITERATURE PRIZE:
80-year-old Swedish poet, Tomas Transtromer has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
His works explore the mysteries of the human mind and he is regarded as one of the
most important Scandanavian writers of the post-World War II era.
(Photo courtesy AP)
CHEMISTRY PRIZE:
Daniel Shechtman wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
Chemistry prize awarded Israeli 'for the discovery of quasicrystals'
Israeli researcher, Daniel Shechtman has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize
for Chemistry for his discovery in 1982 of "quasicrystals".
(Photo courtesy Israel Institute of Technology via AFP/Getty Images)
PHYSICS PRIZE:
3 US-born scientists win Physics Nobel Prize
Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess win physics prize
Three win Nobel for discovering cosmic speedup
MEDICINE PRIZE:
Scientist wins Nobel Prize in Medicine posthumously
This year's Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Dr. Ralph Steinman,
a Canadian-born researcher at Rockefeller University in New York for his
ground-breaking research into treatments for pancreatic cancer. He died
of the disease 3 days before the Nobel Prize for Medicine was announced.
He was 68.
(Photo courtesy Rockefeller University)
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