Nobel Prizes 2021

Question 1

Who got the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine?

Answer 1

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch (somatosensation)

Question 2

Who got the Nobel prize in Physics?

Answer 2

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi for understanding complex physical substances

Question 3

Who got the Nobel prize in Chemistry?

Answer 3

Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for the development of a new tool to build molecules that is environmentally cleaner in medicines and pesticides.

Question 4

Who got the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer 4

Abdulrazak Gurnah (effects of colonialism and the fate of refugee in gulf)

Question 5

Who got the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer 5

Maria Ressa and Dmitri A. Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression

Question 6

Who got the Nobel prize in economics?

Answer 6

David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens for research on wages and jobs and analysis of casual relationships.

Question 7

Which award wasn’t established in the will of Alfred Nobel?

Answer 7

The economics award was established by the Swedish Central Bank in 1968

Question 8

Who got the 2020 Nobel Price in economics?

Answer 8

Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats