[caption id=“attachment_1751073” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi of India have won the Nobel Peace Prize 2014. Satyarthi’s Bachpan Bachao Andolan has saved 80,000 children so far. The two were named winner of the £690,000 (8m kronor or $1.11m) prize by the chairman of the Nobel committee - Norway’s former Prime Minister Thorbjoern Jagland said. Reuters/Kailash Satyarthi’s website[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750595” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Nobel Prize winners of 2014 so far are: (clockwise from top) William E. Moerner, Shuji Nakamura, Patrick Modiano, Isamu Akasaki, Stefan W Hell and Hiroshi Amano. Reuters[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750627” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  US-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple and scientists Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser won the Nobel in Medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750597” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  (From left to right on screen) American scientist Eric Betzig, Germany’s Stefan Hell and US scientist William Moerner won the 2014 Nobel prize for chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750599” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Books by French author Patrick Modiano on display at a bookstore in Paris. The author has won the Nobel Literature. Reuters[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750601” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  (Left to right) Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, and US scientist Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing a new energy efficient and environmentally friendly light source, the LED, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750631” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Professor John O’Keefe near his office at the University College London. Anglo-American O’Keefe’s discovery could be a breakthrough in treating dementia. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750633” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Norwegian scientists May-Britt and Edvard Moser who are married to each other in a file photo. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750603” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  French author Patrick Modiano at a news conference in Paris after he was declared the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750607” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Japanese-born US scientist Shuji Nakamura show the blue LED light which won him and two other scientists - Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano - the Nobel prize for Physics for inventing a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source, leading to the creation of modern LED light bulbs. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750609” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Japanese scientist Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, smiles for the camera at a press conference after he was declared one of the winners of the 2014 Nobel. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750611” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  American scientist and Nobel prize winner Eric Betzig speaks to journalists prior to a lecture at the Helmholz center in Munich. US. citizens Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Germany’s Stefan Hell won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750613” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  German scientist and Nobel prize winner Stefan Hell poses with a nanoscale microscope at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750615” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  US scientist William Moerner before a press conference. Moerner with two other scientists won the Nobel in Chemistry for smashing the size barrier in optical microscopes, allowing researchers to see individual molecules inside living cells. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750617” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Japanese-born scientist Shuji Nakamura during a press conference in Fremont, California. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1750619” align=“alignleft” width=“940”]  Meijo University professor Isamu Akasaki (centre) is presented with a bouquet of flowers after the Nobel awards were announced. REUTERS[/caption]
The Nobel prize winners of 2014 so far in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Literature have been announced. Here is a look at the winners.
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