Summary The $1.1 million awards will be handed out on December 10.
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The 2014 Nobel Prizes are being announced this week and next by committees in Stockholm and Oslo. Here is a list of which awards have already been announced, and which are coming up. The $1.1 million awards will be handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel s death in 1896.
MEDICINE
U.S.-British scientist John O Keefe split the Nobel Prize in medicine with Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser on Monday for breakthroughs in brain cell research that could pave the way for a better understanding of diseases like Alzheimer s.
PHYSICS
Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and Japanese-born U.S. scientist Shuji Nakamura won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes, which promises to revolutionize the way the world lights its homes and offices
and already helps create the glowing screens of mobile phones, computers and TVs.
CHEMISTRY
Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing new methods that let microscopes see finer details than they could before.
The three scientists were cited for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy," which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said had bypassed the maximum resolution of traditional optical microscopes.
LITERATURE
The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced by the Swedish Academy on Thursday at 1100 GMT (7 a.m. EDT).
PEACE
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday at 0900 GMT (5 a.m. EDT).
ECONOMICS
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Oct. 13 at 1100 GMT (7 a.m. EDT).
