Nobel Prize

Physics Nobel 2016: David Thouless, F Duncan M Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz winners

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 has been divided, one half awarded to David J. Thouless, the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.” They will share the 8 million Swedish kronor prize. Their Work: The three …

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2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.” What is autophagy? In 1963, Christian de Duve, coined the term Autophagy (meaning “self eating”). It is the fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.It was observed that, the cell destroys its own …

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