1999 - Chemistry
Ahmed H. Zewail - Male - 53 years
Birth country: Egypt
Motivation: for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA
Nobel Prize Winners of 1999
In 1999, 7 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 6 categories: Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Literature, Medicine, Peace, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.
1999 - Economic Sciences
Robert A. Mundell - Male - 66 years
Birth country: Canada
Motivation: for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas
Affiliation: Columbia University - USA
1999 - Literature
Günter Grass - Male - 71 years
Birth country: Poland
Motivation: whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history
1999 - Medicine
Günter Blobel - Male - 63 years
Birth country: Poland
Motivation: for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA
1999 - Peace
Organization: Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Country of Origin: France
Motivation: in recognition of the organisation's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents
1999 - Physics
Gerardus 't Hooft - Male - 53 years
Birth country: the Netherlands
Motivation: for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics
Affiliation: Utrecht University - the Netherlands
Martinus J.G. Veltman - Male - 68 years
Birth country: the Netherlands
Motivation: for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics
