The 2013 Nobel Prize Winners Are... Quiz

Answer: Stockholm, Sweden

The only prize that is not awarded in Stockholm is the Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

The Nobel Prizes started in 1901, five years after Alfred Nobel's death. Nobel, in his last will, wrote that all his fortune was to be divided in five parts, which would be used for the five categories of the prizes, "for those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind".

Answer: Canada

Munro, regarded as "master of the contemporary short story", has also received awards such as the Man Booker International Prize, the Giller Prize and the Canada's Governor's General Award.

Some other short stories written by her include "Lives of Girls and Women", "Who Do You Think You Are?" and "Too Much Happiness".

Answer: John F. Nash Jr.

John F. Nash Jr. won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994 for his "analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games". The equilibrium concept he developed is now known as the Nash equilibrium.

Fama, Hansen and Shiller, who won the 2013 Economics Nobel Prize, said that it is possible to foresee the course of stock prices over long periods.

Answer: François Englert

The Higgs Boson was first theorised in 1964 and it was confirmed to exist in 2013. The discovery of this particle could tentatively answer the question "How does nature decides which particles are assigned mass?"

Higgs and Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles".

Answer: Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt

Warshel and Levitt, both Chemistry professors, won the Nobel Prize "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."

They shared the award with Austrian-American Jew Martin Karplus, who also is a Chemistry professor.

Answer: The Institute of International Law

In 1904, the Institute of International Law, from Belgium, became the first organization to be recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, "for its efforts as an unofficial body to formulate the general principles of the science of international law".

Many other organizations have won since, like the Swiss Permanent International Peace Bureau, the Red Cross and the United Nations, as well as UN extensions such as UNICEF and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Answer: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

During 2013, chemical weapons made the headlines, it was one of the most polemical topics of the year. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is an international organization with its headquarters in the Netherlands, won the prize "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons".

Answer: Harvard University

Rothman first received his B.A. in Physics in Yale, and later got his Ph.D at Harvard. He is a professor of Biomedical Sciences and has served as the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology.

He was awarded the 2013 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize "for his discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".

Answer: True

Schekman has been an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, at the University of California, Berkeley. This university has a lab called "The Schekman Lab", used to research about vesicular traffic, the topic which got Schekman the shared Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize.

Answer: Victor P. Whittaker

Whittaker studied, among other things, synaptic vesicles. From 1973 to 1987, Whittaker served as the Director and Head of the Department of Neurochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

There, Whittaker was the doctoral advisor of German-American scientist Thomas Südhof.