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Basic General Knowledge - "AWARDS AND HONOURS"

NOBEL PRIZE 2017 Physics:  Rainer, weiss, Barry c.barish and Kip s.tthorne, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitationl waves" Chemistry:  Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution" Physiology or Medicine:   Jeffrey C.Hall, Michael Rosbash and MichaelW. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhytam" Literature:   Kazuo Ishiguro, for, "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world" Peace:  International campaing to abolish nuclear weapons (ICAN) ,"for it's work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapones and for it's ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such wea...