Nobel Peace PrizeRigoberta Menchú(in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples) |
Nobel Prize in LiteratureDerek Walcott(for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment) |
Nobel Prize in PhysicsGeorges Charpak(for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesGary Becker(for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineEdmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs(for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism) |
Nobel Prize in ChemistryRudolph A. Marcus(for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems) |