The 2001 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.[1]
Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.[2][3]
Prizes
editPhysics
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Eric Allin Cornell
(b. 1961) |
 American
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"for the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates" | [4] |
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Carl Wieman
(b. 1951) | |||
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Wolfgang Ketterle
(b. 1957) |
 German
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Chemistry
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William S. Knowles
(1917–2012) |
American
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"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" | [5] |
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Ryōji Noyori
(b. 1938) |
 Japanese
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K. Barry Sharpless
(b. 1941) |
American
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"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions" | [5] |
Physiology or Medicine
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Leland H. Hartwell
(b. 1939) |
United States
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"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" | [6] |
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Sir Tim Hunt
(b. 1943) |
 United Kingdom
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Sir Paul M. Nurse
(b. 1949) | |||
Literature
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
(1932–2018) |
United Kingdom
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"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories" | [7] |
Peace
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United Nations | United Nations | "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." | [8] |
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Kofi Annan
(1938–2018) |
 Ghana
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Economic Sciences
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George Akerlof
(b. 1940) |
United States
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"for their analyses of markets with information asymmetry" | [9] |
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Michael Spence
(b. 1943) | |||
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Joseph Stiglitz
(b. 1943) | |||
References
edit- ^ Ulaby, Neda (October 6, 2005). "Nobel Academy Silent on Literature Prize". NPR.
- ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony 2001". NobelPrize.org. 2013-06-01. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- ^ Royen, Ulrika (2014-03-06). "Photo gallery - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2001". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
- ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 18 July 2007. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
- ^ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2001". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2001". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2008-10-14.