Nobel Peace PrizeInternational Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams(for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines) |
Nobel Prize in LiteratureDario Fo(who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden) |
Nobel Prize in PhysicsSteven Chu, William Daniel Phillips, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji(for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesMyron Scholes, Robert C. Merton(for a new method to determine the value of derivatives) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineStanley B. Prusiner(for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection) |
Nobel Prize in ChemistryPaul D. Boyer, John E. Walker(for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)) |
Nobel Prize in ChemistryJens Christian Skou(for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase) |