Nobel peace prize 2011
Winners are Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakul Karman of Yemen for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.
Nobel Literature prize 2011
Tomas Tranströmer for condensed translucent images which give us fresh access to reality.
Nobel Economics prize 2011
Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
Nobel Physiology or Medicine prize 2011
Bruce Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity.
Nobel Chemistry prize 2011
Dan Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals.
Nobel Physics prize 2011
Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess & Brian P. Schmidt for his contributions to the discovery of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe.
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“Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.”
Kristin Cashore
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