Awards & Winners

2002 Nobel Prize

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Nobel Peace Prize

Jimmy Carter

(for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development)

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Nobel Prize in Literature

Imre Kertész

(for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Riccardo Giacconi

(for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Raymond Davis, Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba

(for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John Sulston

(for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Daniel Kahneman

(for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

John Fenn, Koichi Tanaka

(for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Kurt Wüthrich

(for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Vernon L. Smith

(for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms)