List of Nobel Prize Winners 2019
List of Nobel Prize Winners 2019
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The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel. They are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world and are conferred in six categories: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economics.
| Subject | Nobel Laureates | Research Work |
| Medicine | William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza of the US and Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe | Awarded for Discoveries on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability, paving the way for new cancer treatments. |
| Chemistry | John B Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino | Awarded for developing the lithium-ion batteries. These batteries are today used in everyday items; from mobile phones to remote controls and even electric vehicles. |
| Physics | <>Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz | <>Awarded for theoretical discoveries that have contributed to our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang. |
| Literature | Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian novelist Peter Handke | Awarded for their outstanding work in the field of literature |
| Peace | Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed | Awarded for ending 20 years of hostility with neighboring Eritrea. |
| Economics | Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer | Awarded for an experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. |
Map coloring is the act of assigning different colors to different features on a map. Color use is always consistent on a single map. The colors used on maps have a relationship to an object or feature on the ground. blue is almost always the color chosen for water.
The Survey of India used seven standard colors to depict the distributional pattern of land use.
Black : For lettering boundaries and railways.
Blue : For water bodies.
Brown : For contours.
Green : For forests.
Grey : For hill shading.
Red : For buildings and roads.
Yeliow : For cultivated area.
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Chandrayaan, series of Indian lunar space probes. Chandrayaan-1 (chandrayaan is Hindi for "moon craft") was the first lunar space probe of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and found water on the Moon. It mapped the Moon in infrared, visible, and X-ray light from lunar orbit and used reflected radiation to prospect for various elements, minerals, and ice. It operated in 2008–09. Chandrayaan-2, which launched in 2019, was designed to be ISRO’s first lunar lander.
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Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008, from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical, and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon. The spacecraft carried 11 scientific instruments built in India, the USA, UK, Germany, Sweden, and Bulgaria.
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Minerals .
Antimony : Punjab, Karnataka.
Bauxite : Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Bihar.
Chromite : Orissa, Maharashtra.
Coal : Jharkhand, West Bengal.
Copper : Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh.
Diaspora : Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh.
Gold : Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh.
Iron: Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu.
Lead : Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh.
Lignite : Tamil Nadu, Gujarat.
Manganese : Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra.
Natural Gas : Assam, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu.
Nickel : Orissa.
Petroleum : Assam, Gujarat.
Silver : Rajasthan, Bihar, Karnataka.
Tin : Bihar Tungsten : Rajasthan, West Bengal.
Uranium : Kerala, Jharkhand, Rajasthan.
Zinc : Rajasthan.
Non-Metallic Minerals .
Asbestos : And...
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