2002 Nobel Prize

13

laureates

6

fields

2002

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

2002 Nobel Prize in Physics (1)

for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos

Raymond Davis Jr.
Raymond Davis Jr.

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Masatoshi Koshiba
Masatoshi Koshiba

JapanJapan

2002 Nobel Prize in Physics (2)

for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources

Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1)

Development of methods for identification and structural analysis of biological macromolecules (development of soft desorption ionisation techniques for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules)

John Bennett Fenn
John Bennett Fenn

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka

JapanJapan

2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2)

Development of methods for identification and structural analysis of biological macromolecules (development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution)

Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich

SwitzerlandSwitzerland

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for the discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death

Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner

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

H. Robert Horvitz

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

John E. Sulston
John E. Sulston

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

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

2002 Nobel Prize in Literature

for pursuing the possibility of living and thinking as an individual in a time when people were compelled to submit to overwhelming social pressure

Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész

HungaryHungary

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

2002 Nobel Peace Prize

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

Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for pioneering contributions to behavioural economics and experimental economics by integrating psychological insights into economic science and by establishing laboratory experiments as a fundamental tool for studying market mechanisms

Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman

United States of AmericaUnited States of America, IsraelIsrael

Vernon Smith
Vernon Smith

United States of AmericaUnited States of America