If prices had been kept exactly to the inflation rate then a Â£1,000 season ticket in 2004 should have cost Â£1,342 in 2013. Instead, the average increase in rail fares means it would now cost Â£1,515. Other examples of increases set to the RPI include the interest on repayments of student loans.
Who was the first asian to win nobel prize? Discuss Who was the first asian to win nobel prize? within the General Knowledge (GK) forums, part of the Preparation Resource for Entrance Exams category; Rabindranath Tagore ( first Indian, as well as first asian) for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913. Advertisements...
Ada Yonath (b. 1939) was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.. The year 2009 was also the first time more than one woman was awarded a Nobel Prize in the sciences. Other female prize winners that year were: Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider for Physiology or Medicine, and Elinor Ostrom for Economic Sciences.