Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1998
1. Nobel Laureates - Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Stormer and Daniel C. Tsui
Field - Physics
Contribution - Discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.
2. Nobel Laureates - Walter Kohn
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Development of the density-functional theory
3. Nobel Laureates - John A. Pople
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Development of computational methods in quantum chemistry
4. Nobel Laureates - Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad.
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
5. Nobel Laureates - Jose Saramago
Field - Literature
Contribution - Who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and
irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.
6. Nobel Laureates - John Hume and David Trimble
Field - Peace
Contribution - Efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
7. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Amartya Sen
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - For his contributions to welfare economics.