Who were the Nobel Prize winners of 2013?
The Nobel Prize winners of 2013 were:
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Physics:
François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider".
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Chemistry:
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
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Physiology or Medicine:
James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".
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Literature:
Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story".
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Peace:
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons".
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Economic Sciences:
Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert J. Shiller "for their empirical analysis of asset prices".