Nobel Peace PrizeKim Dae-jung(for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular) |
Nobel Prize in LiteratureGao Xingjian(for an æuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama) |
Nobel Prize in PhysicsJack Kilby(for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit) |
Nobel Prize in PhysicsZhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer(for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesJames Heckman(for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineArvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric Kandel(for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system) |
Nobel Prize in ChemistryAlan J. Heeger, Hideki Shirakawa, Alan MacDiarmid(for the discovery and development of conductive polymers) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesDaniel McFadden(for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice) |