NOBEL PRIZES 2023 The Nobel Prize is considered the most prestigious prize in the world. This prize is given in 6 fields’ i.e, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics, and Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 21, 1833. He is known for inventing dynamite.. Agency responsible for selection is specifically designated by Alfred Nobel . § The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selects the Nobel Laureate in Physics and Chemistry, § Karolinska Institute selects Nobel Laureate in the field of Physiology or Medicine, TALENT SEARCH STUDY MATERIAL –CLASS VIII Page 38 § the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize selects Nobel Laureate in Literature, § a Committee of five persons elected by the Norwegian Parliament selects for the Nobel Peace Prize. § Marie Curie is the only one woman who has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. § John Bardeen is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. § Despite being nominated five times, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(Mahatma Gandhi) never won the Nobel Prize § John B. Goodenough is the oldest recipient of this prize in Chemistry 2019 at the age of 97yrs. § The first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize was Rabindra Nath Tagore. § Malala Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Laureate to get the Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17 yrs. ● Nobel Prize in Physics 2023-Pierre Agostini ,Ferenc Krausz ,Anne L’Huillier“for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter” ● Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023- Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus ,Aleksey Yekimov“for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots” that added colour to nanotechnology- ● Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023-Katalin Karikó,Drew Weissman “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”,contributed to an unprecedented rate of vaccine development ● Nobel Prize in Literature -Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” His immense oeuvre written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognised for his prose. ● The Nobel Peace Prize -Narges Mohammadi “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all” ● Nobel Prize / The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023-Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes” ● Miss Universe 2023 Sheynnis Palacios from Nicaragua won the 2023 title at the international competition's 72nd final in San Salvador. ● Shital Mahajan: First Woman to Skydive from 21,500 ft Near Mt Everest November 15, 2023. Mahajan is a well-known Indian skydiver who holds several skydiving records and is the recipient of the fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri in 2001. ● Savitri Jindal- India's richest woman Savitri Jindal now 7th wealthiest Indian ● Katrina Kaif has become the brand ambassador for clothing brand Uniqlo ● Sultan AlNeyadi became the first Arab astronaut to complete a spacewalk mission outside the ISS, as part of the 69th mission last April, which lasted about 7 hours.This historic achievement is also added to the record of the Arab world’s contributions to outer space exploration.He conducted pioneering scientific experiments that contribute to serving humanity and the scientific community. TALENT SEARCH STUDY MATERIAL –CLASS VIII Page 39 ● The 2023 G20 New Delhi summit was the eighteenth meeting of G20 (Group of Twenty). It was held in Bharat Mandapam International Exhibition-Convention Centre, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on 9–10 September 2023. It was the first G20 summit held in India. ● In September 2023, at the 18th G20 Summit, Indian PM Narendra Modi announced that the African Union has been included as a member of the G20, making it the 21st member. ● The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino: Gawad Ramon Magsaysay) is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay’s example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. Magsaysay Award is often called the Nobel Prize of Asia ● Magsaysay Award 2023 -Dr. Ravi Kannan R. of IndiaImmense commitment to medicine emphasizing holistic care and patient-first treatment. SPACE MISSION ● Chandrayaan-3 is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme , a series of lunarexploration missions developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).The mission consists of a lunar lander named Vikram and a lunar rover named Pragyan , similar to those launched aboard Chandrayaan-2 in 2019. ● Chandrayaan-3is now happily sleeping on the Moon, it was unlikely to revive. ● Indian Space Research Organisation Chief S Somanath ● The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been honored with the distinguished Leif Erikson Lunar Prize for its pioneering Chandrayaan-3 mission, a significant milestone in lunar exploration. BOOKS AND AUTHORS ● Booker Prize (2023) was won by Irish author Paul Lynch for Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism. ● Pulitzer Prize 2023 -Barbara Kingsolver won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for 'Demon Copperhead', which is a moder retelling of Charles Dickens' classic 'David Copperfield'. ● most read book in 2023 is the novel “Happy Place” by Emily Henry Greatest Book Ever Written ● Anna Karenina -Leo Tolstoy, ● To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee, ● The Great Gatsby -F. Scott Fitzgerald ● One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel García Márquez ● A Passage to India -E.M. Forster ● Invisible man- H G Wells ● Don Quixote-Miguel de Cervantes ● Beloved -Toni Morrison ● Mrs. Dalloway-Virginia Woolf TALENT SEARCH STUDY MATERIAL –CLASS VIII Page 40 ● Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe ● Jane Eyre-Charlotte Brontë ● The Color Purple-Alice walker Most popular reads of 2023 ● Happy place-Emily Henry ● Forth wing-Rebecca Yarros ● Yellow face-R. F. Kuang ● Spare- Prince Harry ● The Midnight Library-Matt Haig ● Age of Vice-Deepti Kapoor ● Hello Beautiful-Ann Napolitano ● The wager- David Grann ● Birnam wood -Eleanor Catton THE 54TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA (IFFI) 2023 ● Best Film: Endless Borders ● Best Actor-Male: Pouria Rahimi Sam for Endless Borders ● Best Actor (Female): Melanie Thierry for Party of Fools ● Best Director: Stephan Komandarev for Blaga’s Lessons ● Special Jury Award: Rishab Shetty For Kantara ● Best Debutant Director: Reger Azad Kaya for his Syrian-Arab Republic film When the Seedlings Grow ● Best Web Series: Panchayat Season 2 ● Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Douglas. 69TH NATIONAL FILM AWARDS (2023) FILM AWARDS ● 69th National Film Awards 2023: President Droupadi Murmu conferred the 69th National Film Awards 2023 in New Delhi ● Dadasaheb Phalke Award- Waheeda Rehman ● Best Feature Film - Rocketry ● Best Director - Nikhil Mahajan for Godavari ● Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration - The Kashmir Files ● Best Actor - Allu Arjun for Pushpa ● Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment - RRR TALENT SEARCH STUDY MATERIAL –CLASS VIII Page 41 ● Best Actress - Alia Bhatt for Gangubai Kathiawadi, and Kriti Sanon for Mimi ● Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation: Aavasavyuham (Malayalam) ● Best Film on Social Issues: Anunaad - The Resonance (Assamese) SPORTS CRICKET ● National Sports day is observed on 29th August every year. ● ICC ODI Player Of the Year 2023: Pakistan Skipper Babar Azam ● BCCI President – Roger Binny ● Team India men’s captain - Rohit Sharma ● Team India women’s captain - Harmanpreet Kaur ● Team India Head Coach – Rahul Dravid FOOTBALL ● FIFA- The Federation International de Football Association ● FIFA President – Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino ● FIFA Player of the Year 2022 - Lionel Messi ● Lionel Messi clinched his eighth Ballon d'Or award for Argentine. ● COPA America 2022 winners – Argentina won their first title in 28 years by defeating Brazil in the final. ● Premier League Golden Boot- Manchester City star Erling Haaland won the 2022/23 Premier League Golden Boot with a new Premier League single-season record of 36 goals. HOCKEY ● IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) The US women’s National Team claimed gold at the 2023 IIHF Women’s world Championship in Brampton, Ontario, with a win over Canada to capture USA Hockey’s first medal since 2019. ● The 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup was the 15th edition of the Men’s FIH Hockey world cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national field Hockey team organized by the International Hockey Federation. It was held at the Kalinga stadium in Bhuvaneswar and at Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in India from 13 to 29 January 2023. ● The 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup - Germany won against Belgium. BADMINTON ● BWF World Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation. ● It is used to determine the qualification for the World Championships and Summer Olympic Games, BWF World Tour tournaments ● South Korean badminton stars An Se-young and Seo Seung-jae have been named the world's best players for the year 2023 ● BWF Korean Open 2023- Anders Antonsen beats Loh Kean Yew in men's final, An Seyoung wins women's title at home. ● P.V.Sindhu -The first Indian to win gold in the Badminton World Championship. KABBADI ● Asian Kabbadi championship 2023- The Indian men's kabaddi team beat Iran in the final to win the gold medal while the Indian women defeated Chinese Taipei to reclaim the crown. TALENT SEARCH STUDY MATERIAL –CLASS VIII Page 42 Athletics ● World Para Athletics Championships in France. Two world records for Brazil’s Rodrigues at World Para athletics Championships. BILLIARDS ● Pankaj Advani won World Billiards Championship for record 26th time. MOTOR RACING ● 2023 Formula One World Championship/Winner- Max Verstappen ● The 2023 United States Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Lenovo United States Grand Prix 2023) was a Formula One motor race that took place on October 22, 2023, at the Circuit of the Americans IN Austin, Texas, United States. It was the eighteenth round of the 2023 Formula One World Championship and the fifth Grand Prix weekend of the season to utilize the sprint format. Max Verstappenwon both races. ● Japanese Grand Prix - Max Verstappen ● World Constructors' Championship- Red Bull CHESS ● The Chess World Cup 2023 Venue – Baku, Azerbaijan ● Magnus Carlsen (NOR, 2835) emerged as the Winner of the FIDE World Chess Cup. ● India's Youngest Chess Grandmaster- R Praggnanandhaa LAWN TENNIS ● DAVIS CUP- Italy won the title, defeating Australia in the final. ● AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2023- Novak Djokovic defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final. ● FRENCH OPEN - Novak Djokovic wins his 23rd Grand Slam title by beating Casper Ruud in the French Open final. Novak Djokovic makes history with his 23rd Grand Slam singles title and third at Roland-Garros - 'The pinnacle of his career'. ● ATP - Novak Djokovic won the ATP Finals for a record seventh time by defeating Jannik Sinner. ● US OPEN- Novak Djokovic defeated Daniil Medvedev in the final, to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2023 US Open. It was his fourth US Open title and record-extending 24th men's singles major title overall. ● Coco Gauff won the women’s singles title, defeating Aryna Sabalenka. LIST OF NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS 2023 ● Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2023: Shri Rankireddy Satwik Sai Raj and Shri Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty for Badminton ● The award is conferred for the most outstanding performance in sports by a sportsperson over the time period of the last four years. ● Arjuna Award: Ms. Aditi Gopichand Swami (Archery), Shri Ojas Pravin Deotale (Archery), Ms. Parul Chaudhary (Athletics), Shri. Sreeshankar M (Athletics), Shri Mohameed TALENT SEARCH STUDY MATERIAL –CLASS VIII Page 43 Hussamuddin (Boxing), Shri Mohammed Shami (Cricket), Ms. R Vaishali (Chess),Ms Divyakriti Singh (Equestrian Dressage), Shri Anush Agarwalla (Equestrian),Ms. Diksha Dagar (Golf),Ms. Pukhrambam Sushila Chanu (Hockey), Shri Krishan Bahadur Pathak (Hockey), Ms. Ritu Negi (Kabaddi), Shri Pawan Kumar (Kabaddi),Ms. Nasreen (Kho-Kho), Ms. Pinki (Lawn Bowls), Ms. Esha Singh (Shooting),Shri. Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar (Shooting), Shri. Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (Squash),Ms. Ayhika Mukherjee (Table Tennis), Ms. Antim (Wrestling), Shri. Sunil Kumar (Wrestling),Ms. Naorem Roshibina Devi (Wushu), Ms. Sheetal Devi (Para Archery), Shri Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (Blind Cricket) and Ms. Prachi Yadav (Para Canoeing). ● Dronacharya Award (Regular category): Shri Lalit Kumar (Wrestling), ● R. B. Ramesh (Chess), Shriveer Prasad Saini (Para Athletics), Shivendra Singh (Hockey) and Shri Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar (Mallakhamb) ● Dronacharya Award (Lifetime Category): Shri. Jashkirat Singh Grewal (Golf), Shri. Bhaskaran E (Kabaddi) and Shri. Jayanta Kumar Pushilal (Table Tennis) ● Dhyan Chand Award: (Lifetime Category): Ms. Manjusha Kanwar (Badminton),Shri. Vineet Kumar Sharma (Hockey) and Ms. Kavitha Selvaraj (Kabaddi) Emily Henry Waheeda Rehman Aditi Gopichand S. R Praggnanandhaa Pankaj Advani Satwik sairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty Novak Djokovic Chandrayaan -3 TALENT SEARCH STUDY MATERIAL –CLASS VIII Page 44 Max Emilian Verstappen Lionel Messi- 2023 Ballon d'Or winner ( 8th Ballon d'Or) F1 World Champion FIFA World Cup 2023 in Qatar Neeraj Chopra- Olympic champion and World champion in Men's javelin throw OceanGate Titan Submersible Russia’s Luna 25 TALENT SEARCH STUDY MATERIAL –CLASS VIII Page 45 India's new parliament building The Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 Droupadi Murmu Was awarded to Narges Mohammadi President of India Sharath Kamal receives Khel Ratna Best Original Song Oscar Academy Awards at the 2023 for the song “Naatu Naatu.” Open AI GPT-4 was released in Brendan Fraser wins best actor in oscars 2023 March of 2023