The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize in Economics) has the official name as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, in the memory of Alfred Nobel.
This year the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm".
This year the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". The Nobel Prize Committee said that "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population".
This year the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to "for studies on the structure and function of the ribosome which showed that the peptidyl transferase was an RNA catalyzed reaction, and for revealing the mechanism of inhibition of this function by antibiotics".
This year the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" and to "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor".
Optical fibers are used in transmitting information by means of pulses of light. The light forms an electromagnetic carrier wave modulated by information.