Nobel Prizes - 2013

In Chemistry

"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

Martin Karplus Michael Levitt Arieh Warshel
Austria South Africa Israel
Affiliation at the time of the award: Universit de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Born: 15 March 1930, Vienna, Austria Born: 9 May 1947, Pretoria, South Africa Born: 20 November 1940, Kibbutz Sde-Nahum, Israel

 

   

 

In Physiology or Medicine

"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"

James E. Rothman Randy W. Schekman Thomas C. Südhof
USA USA Germany

Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Born: 3 November 1950, Haverhill, MA, USA Born: 30 December 1948, St. Paul, MN, USA Born: 22 December 1955, Goettingen, Germany

 

   

 

In Physics

" 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"

François Englert Peter W. Higgs
Belgium United Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of the award: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Born: 6 November 1932, Etterbeek, Belgium Born: 29 May 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom