NOBEL PRIZE 2022

Question 1

In how many category is Nobel awarded?

Answer 1

Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace

Question 2

is ECONOMIC SCIENCES considered as Nobel?

Answer 2

Though it was added in 1968 , Prize is officially not a Nobel Prize
* called as “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”
* was established by Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank)

Question 3

After whose name , is NOBEL PRIZE named?

Answer 3

Alfred Nobel

a Swedish scientist

Question 4

When was the first Nobel given?

Answer 4

The first Nobel Prize was given on 10 December, 1901

Henry Dunant (Switzerland) and Frédéric Passy (France).

Question 5

What is the current money given?

Answer 5

$1.1 million per prize

Question 6

Where they first time distributed?

Answer 6

Stockholm, Sweden

Question 6

Who choose whom?

Answer 6

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decides the prizes in physics, chemistry, and economic science
• Swedish Royal Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute determines the physiology or medicine award
• Swedish Academy chooses literature
• a committee elected by the Norwegian parliament awards the peace prize

Question 7

Which indian was awarded the prestigious award due to his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful verse?

Answer 7

Rabindranath Tagore
The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913

First Indian to recieve Nobel

for Geetanjili

Question 8

Which Indian was awarded the prestigious award ‘for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him’. He discovered the ‘Raman Effect’?

Answer 8

CV Raman
The Nobel Prize in Physics, 1930

Question 9

Which Indian won the prize ‘For work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace’.?

Answer 9

Mother Teresa
The Nobel Prize in Peace, 1979

Question 10

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Studies ‘for his contributions to welfare economics’.?

Answer 10

Amartya Sen
The Nobel Prize in Economic Studies, 1998

Question 11

Who were jointly awarded the prestigious award ‘for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of children to education’. ?

Answer 11

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
The Nobel Prize in Peace, 2014

Question 11

Who is the youngest Nobel Laureates ?

Answer 11

Malala Yousafzai

Question 12

Who is the oldest recipient of this prize in Chemistry 2019 at the age of 97 years.?

Answer 12

John B. Goodenough

Question 13

WHo is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972.?

Answer 13

John Bardeen

Question 14

WHo is the only one woman who has been honoured thrice?

Answer 14

Marie Curie

Question 15

Who is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice?

Answer 15

Frederick Sanger

Question 16

Which is the only prize that is not presented in Stockholm?

Answer 16

The Peace Prize , presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on December 10, the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel.

Question 17

Who won in Literature in 2022?

Answer 17

Annie Ernaux
* was born in 1940
* Yvetot in Normandy (France)
* her first book, Cleaned Out

In 2021, the award was given to novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah

Her work “The Years” was shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize

Question 18

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022 was awarded to

given by by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Answer 18

• John F. Clauser,
• Alain Aspect
• Anton Zeilinge
  * for their work in quantum mechanics , “Violation of Bells Inequality”*

In 2021, it was awarded to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann (jointly)

Question 19

Quantum entanglement was first elucidated by

Answer 19

Erwin Schrödinger in 1935

lead to his well-known cat paradox

Question 20

Who developed the mathematical inequality - Bell Inequality which states that if there are hidden variables, the correlation between the results of a large number of measurements will never exceed a certain value?

Answer 20

John Stewart Bell

Question 21

Who did who in Physics ?

Answer 21

• John F. Clauser developed John Bell’s ideas, leading to a practical experiment which supported quantum mechanics by clearly violating a Bell inequality
• Alain Aspect developed the setup
• Anton Zeilinger was chosen for his innovative use of entanglement and Bell pairs

Question 22

2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to

Answer 22

Swedish geneticist “Svante Pääbo”
* research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution

In 2021, the honour went to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian

Question 23

Who are the the closest relatives of the present-day human species?

Answer 23

Neanderthals

Question 24

Dr Pääbo’s research has resulted in the rise of a new scientific disciple called

Answer 24

Paleogenomics, * which is the study and analysis of genes of ancient or extinct organisms.

Question 25

2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to

Answer 25

* Human Rights Advocate : Ales Bialiatski , Belarus * Russian Human Rights Organisation : Memorial * Ukrainian Human Rights Organisation : Center for Civil Liberties

Question 26

Bialiatski is also credited with founding the organisation ____ in response to the controversial constitutional amendments that gave the president (Alexander Lukashenko) dictatorial powers

Answer 26

Viasna (Spring) in 1996

Question 27

Memorial was established in

Answer 27

1987

Question 28

Center for Civil Liberties was founded in

Answer 28

Kyiv in 2007

Question 28

Who have been awarded the Nobel Prize 2022 in Chemistry?

Answer 28

* Carolyn R Bertozzi * Morten Meldal * K Barry Sharpless

Question 29

Nobel Prize 2022 in chemistry is given for

Answer 29

Click Chemistry and Bioorthogonal Chemistry

Question 30

?? came up with the term ‘click chemistry’ and worked extensively on it

Answer 30

K Barry Sharpless

Question 31

?? came up with a special chemical structure called ‘triazole’ which has many significant applications

Answer 31

Morten Meldal

Question 32

?? took the next step of developing click reactions that could work inside living organisms — ‘bioorthogonal’ reactions

Answer 32

Carolyn R Bertozzi

Question 33

____ shared the 2001 Nobel Prize with William S. Knowles and Noyori Ryōji for “Developing the First Chiral Catalysts”

Answer 33

K Barry Sharpless | (jii do baar jeeti hai)

Question 34

Which reactions work inside living organisms without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell?

Answer 34

Bioorthogonal Reactions

Question 35

Who provided the crown of Click Chemistry- the copper catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition?

Answer 35

Meldal and Sharpless

Question 36

Who is the Only indian to recieve Nobel in Chemistry?

Answer 36

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , in 2009 | with Thomas A Steitz & Ada E. Yonath for "study of Ribosome"

Question 37

Alfred Nobel ne kya banaya tha?

Answer 37

Dynamite

Question 38

When was it declared that nobel can be given after death also?

Answer 38

1974

Question 39

Malala has which country citizenship?

Answer 39

Canada | belongs to Pakistan

Question 40

Only org. to get Nobel Peace Prize three times

Answer 40

Red Cross

Question 41

Only Indian to get Nobel in Physiology

Answer 41

Har Govind Khuranna

Question 42

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to

Answer 42

* Ben S. Bernanke, * Douglas W. Diamon * Philip H. Dybvig | first winner was selected in 1969 ## Footnote “for research on banks and financial crises.”