Nobel Prize 2013 Announced: List of Winners

The Nobel Prize winners of 2013 in the different categories were announced in the month of October 2013. Nobel Prizes are announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every year in the memory of Alfred Nobel.

The categories were the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, The Nobel Literature Prize and The Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Prize winners of 2013 in the different categories were as follows:

Category	Name of the Person	Contribution
Physiology or Medicine	James Rothman	for their groundbreaking work on how the cell organises its transport system
	Randy Schekman
	Thomas Suedhof
Physics	Peter Higgs	for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.
	Francois Englert
Chemistry	Michael Levitt	for the development of multi scale models for complex chemical systems
	Martin Karplus
	Arieh Warshel
Peace	The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)	for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons
Literature	Alice Munro	master of the contemporary short story
Economics	Eugene Fama	for their work on creating a deeper knowledge of how market prices move
	Lars Peter Hansen
	Robert Shiller