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Wednesday, 9 October 2013

October 9, 2013 (Current Affairs)



2013 Noble Prize

In Chemistry
The United States scientists won noble prize in chemistry which was announced on Wednesday to Martin Karplus, Micheal Levitt and Arieh Warshel for their work on computer programs that stimulate complex chemical processes and their research from drugsto solar energy.

In Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of sciences awarded noble prize for physics to Francois Englert of Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and to Peter W. Higgs University of Edidburgh, UK “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”.

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