Nobel Prize 2014: Winners Photogallery

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History was made on Friday when an Indian and a Pakistani jointly shared the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014.India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzay were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "showing great personal courage" and their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.

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The invention of an energy source that lights up our computer and/or mobile phone screens and holds promise to brighten up the quality of life of over 1.5 billion people around the world, has been awarded the Nobel prize for physics 2014. (Getty Images)

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Announcing that "this year's Nobel prize for physics is about light", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the most coveted prize to three Japanese scientists — Isamu Akasaki from Meijo University, Hiroshi Amano from the Nagoya University, Japan and Shuji Nakamura from the University of California "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources." (Getty Images)

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The laureates were rewarded for having invented a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source — the blue light-emitting diode (LED). (Pic: Nobel Prize twitter account)

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According to the committee, the laureates' inventions revolutionized the field of illumination technology. (Pic: Nobel Prize twitter account)

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Also, American scientists Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Germany's Stefan Hell won the 2014 Nobel prize for chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. (Pic: Nobel Prize Twitter account)

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