Current Affairs October 2014
01 Nov 2014
PM Narendra Modi Launches Sawch Bharat Campaign on 02-10-2014
Thomas Kailath wins US National Medal of Science on 04-10-2014
Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Hiroshima Amano(Japan), Shuji Nakamura(Japan) won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white sources. 07-10-2014
John O'Keefe(UK), May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser(Norway) won the Nobeel prize in Medicine for their discoveries of cells that contitute a positioning system in the brain.
American Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stenfan W.Hell won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing new methods that let microscopes see finer details than they could before.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 was awarded to Patric Modiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation"
The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay "for their Struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"
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