2014 Nobel Prize Winners: Celebrating Academic Excellence

Nobel Prize Award 2014

Category	Recipient(s)	Country
Physics	Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano Shuji Nakamura	Japan
Chemistry	Eric Betzig Stefan W. Hell William E. Moerner	USA
Medicine	John O'Keefe May-Britt Moser Edvard Moser	UK Norway
Literature	Patrick Modiano	France
Peace	Kailash Satyarthi Malala Yousafzai	India Pakistan
Economic Sciences	Jean Tirole	France

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances. The 2014 Nobel Prize winners were announced in October of that year. The recipients were recognized for their contributions to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economic sciences.