Polity Notes

Important Notes of Indian Polity

Air India will return to Tata Group after 89 years of its birth. Tata Sons will pay Rs. 18000 crore for a 100% stake in Air India. This airline was started by J.R.D. Tata in 1932.

NOBLE PRIZES 2021

The Noble Prize is five separate prizes that, according to Sir Alfred Nobel’s will of 1895, are awarded to “those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” Noble Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and peace.

Noble Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields.

THE NOBLE PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2021

“for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems”

Mr. Syukuro Manabe a Japanese-American meteorologist & Climatologist and Mr. Klaus Hasselmann a leading German Oceanographer and Climate modeller “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”

Mr. Giorgi Parisi an Italian theoretical Physicist “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

THE NOBLE PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2021

Mr. Benjamin List a German Chemist and Mr. David MacMillan a Scottish Chemist“for the development as asymmetric organocatalysis”

THE NOBLE PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 2021

Mr. David Julius an American Physiologist and Mr. Ardem Patapoutian an American molecular biologist, neuroscientist “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

THE NOBLE PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021

Mr. Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian who lives in UK and writes in English “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”

THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE 2021

Ms. Maria Ressa a Filipino-American Journalist and Mr. Dmitry Muratov a journalist of Russia “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition of democracy and lasting peace”