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Q61 (CISF/2024) Miscellaneous & General Knowledge › Persons in News, Books & Authors

Narges Mohammadi received the Nobel Prize (2023) in which one of the following fields?

Explanation

The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 was awarded to Narges Mohammadi for her courageous struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and her tireless efforts to promote human rights and freedom for all. Mohammadi is an Iranian human rights activist and the vice-president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), founded by Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi. At the time of the announcement, she was incarcerated in Tehran's Evin Prison. She is the 19th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman after Shirin Ebadi to receive the honor. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their work on mRNA vaccines, while the Chemistry prize was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

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