2013 Nobel Prize Winners and Brief History of the Nobel Prize and Selection Process

2013 Nobel Prize Winners and Brief History of the Nobel Prize and Selection Process Nobel Prizes are awarded annually for outstanding achievement in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics. The first Nobel... More

2013 Nobel Prize Winners and Brief History of the Nobel Prize and Selection Process Nobel Prizes are awarded annually for outstanding achievement in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics. The first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901, several years after Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel called for the establishment of a prize in his last will and testament. His will specified that the awards should be "prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind." Past winners of the Nobel Prize (referred to as Nobel Laureates) include the likes of James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for their discovery of DNA in 1962, Ivan Pavlov (of the famous dog experiment) in 1904, and William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor in 1947. 2013 Winners in the Fields of Science Physics François Englert and Peter W. Higgs were awarded the Prize in Physics jointly Less