2013 Nobel Prizes
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The 2013 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.{{Cite web |title=All Nobel Prizes |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes/2019-2010/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.{{Cite web |last=Royen |first=Ulrika |date=2015-01-08 |title=Video - The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-2013-nobel-peace-prize-award-ceremony/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2013-12-16 |title=Video - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2013 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-2013-2013/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Prizes
= Physics =
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(b. 1932) |{{flagdeco|Belgium}} Belgian | rowspan="2" |"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" | rowspan="2" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2013/summary/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405023447/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2013/summary/ |archive-date=5 April 2024 |access-date=8 October 2013 |publisher=Nobel Foundation |df=dmy-all}} |
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(1929–2024) |{{flagdeco|United Kingdom}} British |
= Chemistry =
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(b. 1930) |{{flagdeco|Austria}} Austrian {{flagdeco|United States}} American | rowspan="3" |"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" |
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(b. 1947) |{{flagdeco|South Africa}} South African {{flagdeco|United States}} American {{flagdeco|United Kingdom}} British {{flagdeco|Israel}} Israeli{{Cite web |title=3 Jewish professors -- two of them Israeli -- share 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry {{!}} The Times of Israel |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-prof-arieh-warshel-shares-2013-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713124343/http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-prof-arieh-warshel-shares-2013-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/ |archive-date=13 July 2017 |access-date=9 October 2013 |website=The Times of Israel}} |
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(b. 1940) |{{flagdeco|Israel}} Israeli {{flagdeco|United States}} American |
= Physiology or Medicine =
= Literature =
{{Main page|2013 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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(1931–2024) |{{flag|Canada}} |
= Peace =
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|Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (founded 1997) |"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons." |