Nobel Prize Winners of 2013

Martin Karplus - Male - 83 years

Birth country: Austria

Motivation: for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems

Affiliation: Université de Strasbourg - France; Harvard University - USA

Michael Levitt - Male - 66 years

Birth country: South Africa

Motivation: for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems

Affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine - USA

Arieh Warshel - Male - 72 years

Birth country: Israel

Motivation: for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems

Affiliation: University of Southern California - USA

Eugene F. Fama - Male - 74 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their empirical analysis of asset prices

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

Lars Peter Hansen - Male - 60 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their empirical analysis of asset prices

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

Robert J. Shiller - Male - 67 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their empirical analysis of asset prices

Affiliation: Yale University - USA

Alice Munro - Female - 82 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: master of the contemporary short story

James E. Rothman - Male - 62 years

Birth country: USA

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

Affiliation: Yale University - USA

Randy W. Schekman - Male - 64 years

Birth country: USA

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

Affiliation: University of California - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA

Thomas C. Südhof - Male - 57 years

Birth country: Germany

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

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA

François Englert - Male - 80 years

Birth country: Belgium

Motivation: 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

Affiliation: Université Libre de Bruxelles - Belgium

Peter W. Higgs - Male - 84 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: 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

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh - United Kingdom