1. When did Fridtjof Nansen get Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) 1916
b) 1927
c) 1922
d) 1934
2. When was Fridtjof Nansen born?
a) 5 February 1856
b) 23 May 1867
c) 26 July 1865
d) 10 October 1861
3. Where was Fridtjof Nansen born?
a) Store-Froen
b) Nordfold
c) Tromsa
d) Svolver
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2009 for Medicine?
a) Emil von Behring
b) Chalres Richet
c) Carol W. Greider, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Jack W. Szostak
d) Johannes Fibiger
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2009 for Medicine given?
a) Work on serum therapy
b) Work on Anaphylaxis
c) Discovery of a key mechanism in the genetic operatin of cells
d) Contributions to cancer research
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2009 for Physics?
a) John Rayleigh, William Strutt
b) Gabriel Lippmann
c) Charles Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George Smith
d) Werner Heisenberg
<2>Nobel Prize 2011 Quiz Questions
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine?
a) Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffman, Ralph Steinman
b) Francoise Barre-Sinousi, Luc Montagnier, Harald zur Hausen
c) Carol W. Greider, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Jack W. Szostak
d) Johannes Fibiger
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2011 for Medicine given?
a) Work on serum therapy
b) Work on Anaphylaxis
c) Discoveries concerning the the activation of innate immunity and discovery of the dendtritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity
d) Improvement in surgical instruments
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2011 for Physics?
a) Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess
b) Gabriel Lippmann
c) Charles Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George Smith
d) Werner Heisenberg
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five persons who are chosen by the Norwegian Storting.
2010 – Liu Xiaobo
2009 – Barack H. Obama
2008 – Martti Ahtisaari
2007 – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007 – Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2006 – Muhammad Yunus
2006 – Grameen Bank
2005 – International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
2005 – Mohamed ElBaradei
2004 – Wangari Muta Maathai
2003 – Shirin Ebadi
2002 – Jimmy Carter
2001 – United Nations (U.N.)
2001 – Kofi Annan
2000 – Kim Dae-jung
1. When did Fritz Haber win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) 1924
b) 1922
c) 1918
d) 1916
2. When was Fritz Haber born?
a) 17 February 1884
b) 14 May 1880
c) 3 July 1872
d) 9 December 1868
3. Where was Fritz Haber born?
a) Warsaw
b) Breslau
c) Dusseldorf
d) Augsburg
4. At which university did Fritz Haber begin his study of chemistry?
a) Berlin
b) Jena
c) Heidelberg
d) Potsdam
Emil Fischer was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He developed the Fischer projection. Fischer esterification is a special type of esterification by refluxing a carboxylic acid and an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst. The reaction was first described by Emil Fischer…
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2010 for Medicine?
a) Robert Edwards
b) Robert Koch
c) Charles Richet
d) Jules Bordet
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2010 for Medicine given?
a) Tuberculosis research
b) Developing in-vitro fertilisation
c) Work on anaphylaxis
d) Work on immunity
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2010 for Physics?
a) Max Planck
b) Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
c) Carl David Anderson
d) Dennis Gabor
1. When did Naguib Mahfouz get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1969
b) 1967
c) 1988
d) 1992
2. When was Naguib Mahfouz born?
a) 12 January 1902
b) 14 April 1906
c) 5 August 1908
d) 11 December 1911
3. Where was Naguib Mahfouz born?
a) Alexandria
b) Cairo
c) Luxor
d) Thebes
40 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2009. Marie Curie has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. So, the Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 41 times between 1901 and 2009.
The Nobel Prize in Physics
1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1903 – Marie Curie
1. When did Frederick Soddy win Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) 1932
b) 1946
c) 1921
d) 1937
2. When was Frederick Soddy born?
a) 15 February 1872
b) 5 June 1864
c) 2 September 1877
d) 12 October 1875
3. Where was Frederick Soddy born?
a) Eastbourne
b) Dover
c) Chelsea
d) Liverpool