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Nobel Prize Winner List for 2023: Important for UPSC/SSC/Rly etc Exams

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 2023

- Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman 

for “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modification that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”.


Nobel Prize for Physics, 2023 

- (i) Pierre Agostini, (ii) Ferenc Krausz, and (iii) Anne L’Huillier 

for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electro dynamics in matter”.


Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 

- Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for “the discovery and development of quantum dots”.


Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 

- Jon Fosse, 

"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"


Nobel Peace Prize,  2023

- Narges Mohammadi of Iran 

“for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”


Nobel Prize in Economics, 2023 i.e. the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 

- Claudia Goldin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

“for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”

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