THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 2012

·         The Nobel Peace Prize

European Union (EU) "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe"

·         The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"

·         The Nobel Prize in Physics

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems"

·         The Nobel Prize in Literature

Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"

·         The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"

·         The Prize in Economic Sciences

Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"