2001 Nobel Prize

15

laureates

6

fields

2001

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

for the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates (Science 269, 198–201, 1995; Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 420–423, 1996; Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3969–3973, 1995).

Eric A. Cornell
Eric A. Cornell

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle

GermanyGermany

Carl E. Wieman
Carl E. Wieman

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1)

for research on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions

William Standish Knowles

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori

JapanJapan

2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2)

for research on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions

Karl Barry Sharpless
Karl Barry Sharpless

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle

Leland H. Hartwell

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Tim Hunt
Tim Hunt

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Paul M. Nurse
Paul M. Nurse

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

2001 Nobel Prize in Literature

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

V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

2001 Nobel Peace Prize

for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

United Nations
United Nations

WorldWorld

Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan

GhanaGhana

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information

George Akerlof
George Akerlof

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Michael Spence
Michael Spence

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz

United States of AmericaUnited States of America