Nobel Peace Prize 2011 share among three women
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the three women Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman with the prestigious Noble Peace Prize 2011, announced today.
THE NORWEGIAN Nobel Committee has honored three women with the Noble Peace Prize for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman.
Earlier, the Nobel Assembly at Swedish Karolinska Institute in Stockholm divided the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and to Ralph M. Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity".
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was divided among three scientists. One half awarded to Saul Perlmutter, and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". On Wednesday, October 5, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 was awarded to Dan Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals" and yesterday the Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 was awarded to Tomas Transtromer.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, economic sciences and physiology or medicine.
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