<p>This year's Nobel prize winners in literature, physics, chemistry, economics and medicine were awarded their prizes at a royal ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall on Monday (December 10).</p><br /><p>While the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, the other Nobel prizes are handed out in Stockholm on the same day - December 10, the date dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel died.</p><br /><p>This year's winners were nine men from five different countries.</p><br /><p>French scientist Serge Haroche and American scientist David Wineland won the physics prize for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them.</p><br /><p>American scientists Robert Lef-kowitz and Brian Ko-bil-ka won the chemistry prize together for showing how cells in the body respond to stimuli such as a rush of adrenaline, work that is helping the development of more effective drugs.</p><br /><p>Briton John Gurdon and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka won the medicine prize for work on creating stem cells, opening the door to new methods to diagnose and treat diseases.</p><br /><p>China's Mo Yan won the Nobel prize for literature for his work which the awarding committee said has qualities of "hallucinatory realism".</p><br /><p>And, Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the economics prize for research into how to match different economic agents.</p>
