2001 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

William S. 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

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

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories

Peace

United Nations

for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

Kofi Atta Annan

for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

Physics

Eric A. 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 E. 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

Leland H. 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 M. Nurse

for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle