Nobel Prize Winners of 1997

Paul D. Boyer - Male - 79 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Affiliation: University of California - USA

John E. Walker - Male - 56 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - United Kingdom

Jens C. Skou - Male - 79 years

Birth country: Denmark

Motivation: for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase

Affiliation: Aarhus University - Denmark

Robert C. Merton - Male - 53 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for a new method to determine the value of derivatives

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Myron S. Scholes - Male - 56 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: for a new method to determine the value of derivatives

Affiliation: Long Term Capital Management - USA

Dario Fo - Male - 71 years

Birth country: Italy

Motivation: who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden

Stanley B. Prusiner - Male - 55 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection

Affiliation: University of California School of Medicine - USA

Jody Williams - Female - 47 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines

Steven Chu - Male - 49 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Male - 64 years

Birth country: Algeria

Motivation: for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light

Affiliation: Collège de France - France; École Normale Supérieure - France

William D. Phillips - Male - 48 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light

Affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology - USA