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1. Nobel Prize 2021

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Nobel prize 2021 winners were conferred with the prize on 10 December The award is announced in the month of October  but it is given to the winner on 10 december ,the birth anniversary of  Alfred Nobel. All the Nobel prizes are given in Stockholm except the Peace prize,which is given in Oslo, Norway. Norway and Sweden were united by a monarch until 1905 when Norway became an Independent Kingdom .

Nobel Prize Winner 2021.

Physics 

Syukuro Manabe of Japan  and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Girogio Parisi of Italy 

 “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”

Giorgio Parisi of Italy 

 “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

Chemistry 

Benjamin List  of Germany and David W.C. MacMillan of Scotland 

- “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

Medicine/Physiology 

David Julius of U.S and Ardem Patapoutian of   U.S 

- “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

 Peace 

Maria Ressa  of Philippines and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov of Russia 

Maria Ressa in 2012,  co-founded Rappler, a digital media company for investigative journalism.

 Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov was the co-founder of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.Novaya Gazeta is the most independent newspaper in Russia today. 

 Literature 

Abdulrazak Gurnah of Britain . He was born in Tanzania, Africa.

 His famous works are Paradise, By the Sea,Desertion

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 

David Card of Canada, Joshua D. Angrist  of the U.S and Guido W. Imbens of Holland   David Card  got this award - “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”

Joshua D. Angrist  of the U.S and Guido W. Imbens of Holland  for 

 - “ their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

NOBEL PRIZE  The Nobel Prize are five separate prizes awarded annually, that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind.” Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace  In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) funded the establishment of the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to also be administered by the Nobel Foundation Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, but if a person is awarded a prize and dies before receiving it, the prize is presented. The prize money is given in Swedish Krona , SEK. The Nobel Prizes, begun in 1901, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, begun in 1969.  TRIVIA The youngest Nobel laureate is Ms Malala Yousafzai who was awarded the Peace Prize 2014 when she was 17 years old.  The oldest Nobel laureate is John B. Goodenough who was awarded the Prize in Chemistry in 2019 when he was 97 years old. Laureates who have received Multiple Nobel Prizes:  Marie Curie received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911). The International Committee of the Red Cross received the prize three times. Nobel Peace Prize (1917, 1944, 1963). Linus Pauling received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954) and Nobel Peace Prize (1962). John Bardeen received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Physics (1956, 1972). Frederick Sanger received the prize twice. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958, 1980). United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; received the prize twice. Nobel Peace Prize (1954, 1981). List of Nobel Prize winners from India - Rabindranath Tagore (1913) - Literature CV Raman (1930) - Physics Har Gobind Khurana (1968) - Medicine Mother Teresa (1979) - Peace Subhramanyan Chandrashekhar (1983) - Physics Amartya Sen (1998) - Economics Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009) - Chemistry. Kailash Satyarthi (2014) - Peace Abhijit Banerjee (2019) - Economics

2. Awards

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1. Ballon d‘Or football  award 2021:

• Ballon d‘Or  Men: Lionel Messi of Argentina.
• Ballon d‘Or Feminin(women): Alexia Putellas of Spain.

2. Yashin Trophy : It is given to the best goalkeeper.

• Gianluigi Donnarumma of Italy  

3. Kopa Trophy for the best Under-21 player.

• Pedri of Spain.

4. World Athletics Award 2021

• Woman of the year award
• Anju Bobby George for grooming talents in the country and for advocating talents in the country.
• Other winners 
• World Athlete of the year: Male 
• Karsten Warholm of Norway. 
• World Athlete of the year: Female
• Elaine Thompson-Herah  of Jamaica. 

 

3. U.S. maths prize for Nikhil Srivastava

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• Eminent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been jointly selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize awarded by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for “highly original work” in Operator Theory.
• Along with Professor Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, the two other awardees are Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. 
• Mr. Marcus holds the Chair of Combinatorial Analysis at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Mr. Spielman is Sterling Professor of Computer Science at Yale University.

4. Assam’s highest civilian award for Ratan Tata

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• On the occasion of Asom Divas or Assam Day, the state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced to confer the most prestigious 'Asom Baibhav' award to the industrialist Ratan Tata.
• Asom Baibhav award is the biggest award of the state.
• Asom Divas or Assam Day is celebrated on 2 December to commemorate the rule of Chalong Sukapha.

5. Ballon d‘Or football award 2021

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The award is given by France Football for the best footballer in the world. Football journalists around the world vote to select the winner of the Ballon d‘Or award.

Ballon d‘Or Men: Lionel Messi of Argentina. He won the trophy for the record seventh time. He currently plays for French club Paris St. Germain. 

Ballon d‘Or  Feminin (women):  Alexia Putellas of Spain. She plays for Spanish club Barcelona.

Yashin Trophy : It is given to the best goalkeeper.

This year it was given to Gianluigi Donnarumma of Italy.

Kopa Trophy for the best Under-21 player.

Pedri of Spain: He plays for Barcelona club of Spain.

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