Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2001
1. Nobel Laureates - Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman.
Field - Physics
Contribution - for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms,
and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
2. Nobel Laureates - William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.
3. Nobel Laureates - K. Barry Sharpless.
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions.
4. Nobel Laureates - Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.
5. Nobel Laureates - Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Field - Literature
Contribution - having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works
that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories
6. Nobel Laureates - United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan
Field - Peace
Contribution - Work for a better organized and more peaceful world.
7. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - For their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.