Nobel Prize Winners 2019 | 2019 Nobel Prize Winners List | Some Important Facts for Competitive Exams

Nobel Prize Award is one of the most asked topics in today competitive exams. In this article, we are sharing the list of "Nobel Prize Winners 2019" alongside some most significant focuses, that will go about as a score booster for students in the upcoming exams like SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC MTS, SSC GROUP-D, BANK, IBPS, IB, RAILWAY, etc.

What is Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Prize is a lot of yearly global honours offered in a few classes by Swedish and Norwegian establishments in acknowledgement of scholastic, social, or logical advances. The desire of the Swedish scientific expert, designer and industrialist Alfred Nobel set up the five Nobel prizes in 1895.

In How Many Fields Nobel Prize is Given?

Six Nobel Prizes are awarded every year, one in every one of the accompanying classes: Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Peace, Economics, and Physiology & Medicine.

Little History on Nobel Prize:

On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and confirmation, giving the biggest portion of his fortune to a progression of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s national bank) set up The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

List Nobel Prize Winners in 2019

Nobel Prize Winners - 2019

Name	Field	Contribution
Abi Ahmed - The Prime Minister of Ethiopia	Peace	For ending the war with Eritrea.
Peter Handke	Literature	X
James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz	Physics	The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was granted "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos" with one half to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology", the other half mutually to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino	Chemistry	The three scientists have all worked to develop and advance lithium-ion batteries, now-ubiquitous technology which the Nobel Assembly said has “laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil-fuel-free society.”
William G. Kaelin,  Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza	Physiology & Medicine	For their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
Will be Published on Monday 14 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest	Economics	X

Some Important Facts About Nobel Prize

There are some facts about Nobel Prize that are very important for those who are preparing for competitive examination like SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC MTS, SSC GROUP-D, BANK, UPSC, PSC, RAILWAY GROUP-D, RAILWAY NTPC, IB etc. The facts, discussed below, often occurs in the exams mentioned above.

• The Nobel Prize was given for the first time on 10^th December in 1901.

•  Henry Dunant won the first Nobel Prize for Peace. 

• Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for Physics.

• Sully Prudhomme won the first Nobel Prize for Literature.

• Jacobus Henricus Van‘t Hoff won the first Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

• Emil Adolf von Behring won the first Nobel Prize for Physiology & Medicine.

• Rabindranath Tagore was the first  Indian and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

• C. V. Raman won Nobel Prize in 1930 for Physics.

• Mother Teresa Nobel Prize in 1979 for Peace.

• Amartya Sen Nobel Prize in 1998 for Economic Sciences.

• Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Prize winner in 2014.

• Arthur Ashkin became the oldest Nobel Prize winner in 2007.

• Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel The Prize, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.