The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012

     Robert Lefkowitz (69) and Brain Kobilka (57), the two Americans won the Nobel Prize 2012 for Chemistry on 10 October, 2012. They won the award for their study and research on Protein Receptors, which allows the body to respond the signals from outside world. The study in a key and would pave the path for developing better drugs to different ailments. Lefkowitz and Kobilka from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina and Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto. California respectively will be sharing the prize amount of 8 million-krona ($1.2 million).

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012

     Serge Haroche and David Wineland of France and US respectively, won the Nobel Physics Prize on 9 October 2012. They received Nobel for their work on quantum physics, which would open a gate for supercomputers in future. The two physics have developed the technology for examining the intimate relationship between matter and light. This research by the duo would help in development of precise clocks, which will be hundred times precise than the caesium clocks of present-time. The eight million Swedish Krona ($1.2 millions) would be divided in between the two and the award will be received by them on 10 December 2012 on the death ceremony of the Prize Founder, Alfred Nobel.