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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

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Were you paying Attention? what year was he given the Nobel prize?

(A) 2005

(B) 2004

(C) ** 2009

(D) 1099

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, presented by Professor Gunnar Ă–quist, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 7 October 2009.

Concept note-2: -Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace, while a memorial prize in economic sciences was added in 1968.

Concept note-3: -Documenting war crimes, human rights abuses and the abuse of power. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.