Nobel Peace PrizeMartti Ahtisaari(for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesPaul Krugman(for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity) |
Nobel Prize in LiteratureJean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio(author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.) |
Nobel Prize in ChemistryRoger Y. Tsien, Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie(for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP) |
Nobel Prize in PhysicsYoichiro Nambu(for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics) |
Nobel Prize in PhysicsMakoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa(for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineHarald zur Hausen(for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineLuc Montagnier, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi(for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus) |