Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2002
1. Nobel Laureates - Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba
Field - Physics
Contribution - for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos.
2. Nobel Laureates - Riccardo Giacconi
Field - Physics
Contribution - for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.
3. Nobel Laureates - John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules.
4. Nobel Laureates - Kurt Wuthrich
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - For his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution.
5. Nobel Laureates - Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston.
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.
6. Nobel Laureates - Imre Kertesz
Field - Literature
Contribution - writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.
7. Nobel Laureates - Jimmy Carter
Field - Peace
Contribution - 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.
8. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Daniel Kahneman
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science,
especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty.
9. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Vernon L. Smith
Field -
Contribution - for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis,
especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms.