Awards (Current Affairs) (Part-V)

Total Questions: 50

21. Who won Nobel prize for Physics in 2015? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 1.02.2017 (Shift-I)]

(a) Hiroshi Amano
(b) Takaaki Kajita
(c) Isamu Akasaki
(d) Makoto Kobayashi

Correct Answer: (b) Takaaki Kajita

Solution:The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald. In the year 2021, the Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Soukuro Manabe, Claus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi.

22. What is the full form of the word LED, for the invention of which the inventors got the Nobel Prize in 2014? [S.S.C. Online Constable GD 22.02.2019 (Shift-I)]

(a) Light Extension Device
(b) Luminous Extention Device
(c) Light Emitting Diode
(d) Luminant Emission Device

Correct Answer: (c) Light Emitting Diode

Solution:The full form of the word LED is Light Emitting Diode. The Nobel (for physics) of the year 2014 was given to three scientists who invented LED. These scientists are- Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura. They developed the Blue Light Emitting Diode (LED) in Japan in the early 1990s.

23. Who among the following was the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 6.09.2019 (Shift-II)]

(a) William Lawrence Bragg
(b) James Watson
(c) Marie Curie
(d) Kenneth Arrow

Correct Answer: (a) William Lawrence Bragg

Solution:In the year 1915, the famous Australian physicist William Lawrence Bragg was awarded the Nobel Prize. He is the second youngest (25 years) Nobel laureate. The youngest (17 years) Nobel Laureate is Malala Yousafzai. Hence, among the given options, option (a) will be the correct answer.

24. Who was the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize before Malala Yousafzai? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 20.09.2019 (Shift-III)]

(a) William Lawrence Bragg
(b) Jean Henry Dunant
(c) Frederick Passy
(d) Marie Curie

Correct Answer: (a) William Lawrence Bragg

25. Who was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 21.09.2019 (Shift-I)]

(a) Jean Henry Dunant
(b) Wangari Mathai
(c) Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
(d) Linus Pauling

Correct Answer: (c) Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

Solution:The Nobel Prize in Physics was first awarded to Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. He was awarded this award in the year 1901 for the discovery of electromagnetic waves with sharp penetrating power called X-rays.

26. Who among the following was one of the winners of Nobel Prize in Physics 2020? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 06.09.2021 (Shift-II)]

(a) Kip Thorne
(b) Roger Penrose
(c) Arthur Ashkin
(d) Michel Mayor

Correct Answer: (b) Roger Penrose

Solution:The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to British mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose. This award was given to him for the analysis done in relation to Black Hole. In addition to these, Reinhardt Genzel and Andrea Gage were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 2020.

27. Who is the only scientist in the world to have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice? [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 4.03.2020 (Shift-III)]

(a) Roger D. Kornberg
(b) Linus Carl Pauling
(c) Madame Curie
(d) Frederick Sanger

Correct Answer: (d) Frederick Sanger

Solution:Frederick Sanger is the only scientist in the world to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in the years 1958 and 1980. Friedrich Sanger, along with Walter Gilbert, received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.

28. Which of the following group of scientists was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of lithiumion batteries"? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 15.10.2020 (Shift-II)]

(a) Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson and Jacques Dubochet
(b) Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish
(c) Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Ben Feringa
(d) John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino

Correct Answer: (d) John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino

Solution:The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2019 was awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of the lithiumion battery.

Note; Benjamin List and David MacMillan are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis.

29. Who among the following were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for their exemplary work in genome editing? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 10.08.2021 (Shift-III)]

(a) James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo
(b) Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland
(c) George P Smith and Sir Gregory P Winter
(d) Jennifer A Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier

Correct Answer: (d) Jennifer A Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier

Solution:The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuel Charpentier for the development of a method of genome editing.

Note: Benjamin List and David MacMillan are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a significant impact on pharmaceutical research and has made chemistry greener.

30. In 1979, who shared the Nobel Prize with Georg Wittig for their 'development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis'? [S.S.C. Online CGL (T-I) 02.12.2022 (Shift-II)]

(a) Herbert C Brown
(b) Arne Tiselius
(c) Henry Taube
(d) Emil Fischer

Correct Answer: (a) Herbert C Brown

Solution:The 1979 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Georg Wittig of the University of Heidelberg and Herbert C. Brown of Purdue University for their separate work in organic synthesis.

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