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Sample Questions -

Q. 2018 Economics Nobel is won by?

(a) James P Allison

(b) Donna Strickland

(c) Nazia Murad

(d) Paul Romer

Answer: Option D – Paul Romer

Q. One half of the Physics Nobel is awarded for the invention of?

(a) Optical Tent

(b) Optical Tweezers

(c) Electronic Tweezers

(d) Plasma Tweezers

Answer: Option B – Optical Tweezers

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2018 Nobel Prize Winners - Medicine

1) James P Allison

He is a well-known American scientist and

immunologist born in 1948. He completed his PhD
in 1973 from the University of Texas. He has been
awarded the Nobel Prize for his study and work on
a known protein that functions as a brake on the
immune system. He realized the potential of
releasing the brake and thereby unleashing our
immune cells to attack tumours. He then developed
this concept into a brand-new approach for treating
cancer patients.

2) Tasuku Honjo

He is a Japanese Scientist born in 1942. He had

completed his MD in Medicine in 1966 and PhD in
Medical Chemistry in 1975 from Kyoto University.
He was awarded the 2018 Nobel prize for his
discovery of a protein on immune cells which also
operates as a brake on the immune system, but
with a different mechanism of action. Therapies
based on his discovery proved to be strikingly
effective in the fight against cancer.
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2018 Nobel Prize Winners - Physics

1) Arthur Ashkin

He is an American Physicist and he is 96 years old. He is the

Oldest Nobel Laureate in History. He was awarded the Noble
for the invention of Optical Tweezers. This device is able to
grab particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells and move
them with their laser beam fingers.

2) Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou

Donna Strickland is Canadian Physicist born in 1959. She

completed her PhD in 1989 under the mentorship of Gérard
Mourou. She along with Gérard Mourou have been given the
2018 Physics Nobel for their creation of ultrashort high-
intensity laser pulses without destroying the amplifying
material. This technique is called Chirped Pulse Amplification
(CPA) which has become the standard for high-intensity
lasers.

3) Gérard Mourou

He is a French Scientist working in the field of Optical

Sciences. He was the founding Director of the Centre for
Ultrafast Optical Science (UOS) at the University of Michigan.
He is the pioneer in the study of ultrafast lasers and their
applications in scientific, engineering and medical disciplines.
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2018 Nobel Prize Winners - Chemistry

1) Frances H. Arnold

She is a professor of chemical engineering at the

California Institute of Technology born in 1956 in
Pittsburgh, USA. The 2018 Chemistry Noble was awarded
to her for her work on the directed evolution of
enzymes, which are proteins that catalyse chemical
reactions. These enzymes are used to manufacture
environment friendly chemical substances like
pharmaceuticals, renewable fuels, etc.

2) George P. Smith

He is an American Scientist born in 1941. He is currently

an emeritus professor of biological sciences at the
University of Missouri. The 2018 Chemistry Nobel was
awarded to him for developing an elegant method
known as phage display, where a bacteriophage – a virus
that infects bacteria – can be used to evolve new
proteins.

3) Sir Gregory P. Winter

He is a world-renowned Biochemist from England

currently working at the M.R.C. Laboratory of Molecular
Biology in England. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for
his work on directed evolution of antibodies using the
phage display method of George P Smith for producing
new pharmaceuticals.
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2018 Nobel Prize Winners - Peace

1) Nazia Murad

She is a Yazidi woman born in Iraq. She was

captured and made a sex slave by the ISIS. She now
lives in Germany. She was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for sharing her account of sexual
violence faced by her many other captured women
and bringing it in front of the world. Because of her
the criminals could be held accountable and
brought to justice.

2) Denis Mukwege

Born is 1955 he is a Congolese gynaecologist. He

founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu,
where he specializes in the treatment of women
who have been raped by armed rebels. The Nobel
Prize is to recognize his work in helping the victims
of the sexual war crimes and helping them face
the trauma and get back on their feet. He has
dedicated his life for this work.
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2018 Nobel Prize Winners - Economics

1) William D. Nordhaus

He is an American Economist born in 1941. He is

currently the Sterling Professor of Economics at the
Yale University, New Haven, USA. He was awarded
the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics “for integrating
climate change into long-run macroeconomic
analysis”. He created an integrated assessment
model, i.e. a quantitative model that describes the
global interconnections between the economy and
the climate.

2) Paul M. Romer

He is an American Economist born in 1955. He

currently a professor at NYU Stern School of
Business, New York, USA. He has been awarded the
Nobel Prize “for integrating technological innovations
into long-run macroeconomic analysis”. Romer
demonstrates how knowledge can function as a
driver of long-term economic growth. He showed
how economic forces govern the willingness of firms
to produce new ideas and innovations. His work laid
the foundation of the Endogenous growth theory.
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