2013 Nobel Prizes

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. ^[1]

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. ^{[2] [3]}

Prizes

Physics

Awardee(s)
	François Englert (b. 1932)	Belgian	"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"	[4]
	Peter Higgs (1929–2024)	British

Chemistry

Awardee(s)
	Martin Karplus (b. 1930)	Austrian American	"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"	[5]
	Michael Levitt (b. 1947)	South African American British Israeli [6]
	Arieh Warshel (b. 1940)	Israeli American

Physiology or Medicine

Awardee(s)
	James E. Rothman (b. 1950)	United States	"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"	[7]
	Randy W. Schekman (b. 1948)
	Thomas C. Südhof (b. 1955)	Germany   United States

Literature

Main article: 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

Awardee(s)
	Alice Munro (1931–2024)	Canada	"master of the contemporary short story"	[8]

Peace

Main article: 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

Awardee(s)
	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (founded 1997)	The Netherlands [9]	"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons."	[10]

Economic Sciences

Awardee(s)
	Eugene F. Fama (b. 1939)	United States	"for their empirical analysis of asset prices"	[11]
	Lars Peter Hansen (b. 1952)
	Robert J. Shiller (b. 1946)

References

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