Nobel Prizes 2001
Chemistry
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William Knowles
"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
Ryoji Noyori
"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
K. Barry Sharpless
"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
Economic Sciences
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
George A. Akerlof
"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
A. Michael Spence
"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
Literature
- The Nobel Prize in Literature
V. S. Naipaul
"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"
Peace
- The Nobel Peace Prize
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"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"
Kofi Annan
"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"
Physics
- The Nobel Prize in Physics
Eric Cornell
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
Wolfgang Ketterle
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
Carl Wieman
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
Physiology or Medicine
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Leland Hartwell
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
Tim Hunt
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
Sir Paul Nurse
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"