YOK Spotlight - Nobel Prize Winners
Wednesday, Oct 12th, 2022
YOK Spotlight - 2022 Nobel Prize Winners
1. What bisexual Swedish geneticist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work discovering the genomes of extinct hominins?
2. The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger, for their work in quantum information. The trio specifically performed work on what quantum phenomenon, which occurs when two particles behave as one, even when separated?
3. Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on click chemistry. Who among this trio has won their SECOND Nobel prize?
4. French novelist Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature this year. She is perhaps best known for writing in what genre?
5. The Nobel Peace Prize went to three different entities fighting authoritarianism in the post-Soviet region. What three countries do these entities hail from?