Nobel Prizes for the year 2008 are announced

Nobel prizes were announced in October 2008 (the last one on October 13th). The winners are

Physiology or Medicine -

shared by German researcher Harald zur Hausen and two French researchers Françoise  Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier

Physics -

shared by American Professor Yoichiro Nambu (University of Chicago)and Japanese researchers Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (Kyoto University)

Chemistry -

American professors Osamu Shimomura (Boston University), Martin Chalfie (Columbia University) and Roger Y. Tsien (UC San Diego)

Economics

American Professor Paul Krugman (Princeton University)

Literature -

French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Peace

Former President of Finalnd Martti Ahtisaari

America and Europe continue to dominate, though Asian presence is slowly being felt; one hopes one day it will reach the Indian shores too