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The Nobel Prizes for 2010 were announced in October 2010.

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British scientist Robert Edwards has been selected for the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine. He has been given
this award for his pioneering work in in-vitro-fertilization (IVF). It was Robert Edwards whose pioneering
research with his late colleague Patrick Steptoe (who died in 1988) led to the birth of the worlds first test tube
baby.
The Nobel Assembly at Swedens Karolinska Institute which awarded the prize (worth ten million Swedish
Kronor) described his work as a milestone of modern medicine. It said in a statementHis work has made
possible the treatment of infertilitya medical condition that affects a large proportion of humanity including
more than 10% of couples worldwide Edwards along with his late colleague Steptoe founded the Bourn Hall
Clinic in Cambridgewhich is the worlds first In-Vetro-Fertilization Centre.

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Russian born Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of Manchester University were named joint winners of
the Nobel Prize for Physics for 2010. They have been bestowed with the award for their groundbreaking work
on experiments with graphenea new form of carbon. Professor Geim is Dutch citizen. The Prize Committee
saidSince it is practically transparent and a good conductor, graphene could be used for producing
transparent touch screens, light panels and may be even solar cells. Thus graphene has immense
possibilities. As a material graphene is completely new and almost completely transparent yet so dense that
not even helium (the smallest gas atom) can pass through it.

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The winners of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Akira

Suzuki, Ei-ichi Negishi and Richard F. Heck.

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Three scientistsAkira Suzuki and Ei-ichi Negishi from Japan and Richard F. Heck from United States of
America have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 2010 in October 2010. They have been awarded the
Nobel Prize for inventing new ways to bind carbon atom with uses that range from fighting cancer to
producing thin computer screens. Akira Suzuki, Ei-ichi Negishi and Richard Heck shared the prize for the
development of palladiumcatalysed cross coupling. The Nobel Committee for Chemistry at the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statementPalladiumcatalysed cross coupling is used in research
worldwide as well as in the commercial production offor example, pharmaceuticals and molecules used in
the electronics industry.

Literature

Mario Vargas Llosa The 2010 Nobel Prize Winner for

Literature

PeruvianSpanish author and one of the most renowned novelists of his generation Mario Vargas Llosa (74)
has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2010 for his Cartography of structures of power and his trenchant
images of the individuals resistance, revolt and defeat. In the words of Peter EnglandPermanent Secretary
of the Swedish AcademyMr. Llosa is one of the great Latin American storytellersa 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 upon the world.
Mr. Llosas first major international breakthrough came in 1963, with the publication of the novel The Time of
the Hero.
His other profoundly influential novel was The Feast of the Goat (2000). Other well known works include Aunt
Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977), The War of the End of the World (1981) and, more recently, Death in the
Andes (1993).
Conversation in the Cathedral published in 1969 was his monumental work.

Peace

Liu Xiaobo. The 2010 Nobel Prize Winner for Peace

Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo (aged 54) who is in the jail has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
2010. The Norwegian Nobel Committee which gives the award saidMr. Liu has been given the award for
his calls for political reform, for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The
Norwegian Nobel Committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and
peace it said in a statement. Such rights are a prerequisite for the fraternity between nations of which Alfred
Nobel wrote in his will.

Economics

Christopher Pissarides, Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen :

The Nobel Prize Winners of Economics for 2010

Three economistsPeter Diamond and Dale Mortensen of USA and BritishCypriot Christopher Pissarides
have won the 2010 Nobel Economics Prize. They have been awarded for their work on why supply and
demand do not always meet in the labour market and elsewhere. The jury lauded the trio for their analysis of
markets with search frictions which helps explain how unemployment, job vacancies, and wages are affected
by regulation and economic policy. It is important to mention that as per traditional theory labour market
should work on their own, with job seekers finding available job and thereby creating balance. But the
DiamondMortensenPissarides or DMP modeldeveloped by the three show that markets do not always
work in this way. The jury also noted that the trios work in search theory can also be applied to other areas
including housing markets and public economics besides labour markets.

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