Nobel Prize Winners of 2001

In 2001, 15 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.

2001 - Chemistry

William S. Knowles - Male - 84 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions

Ryoji Noyori - Male - 63 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions

Affiliation: Nagoya University - Japan

K. Barry Sharpless - Male - 60 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions

Affiliation: The Scripps Research Institute - USA

2001 - Economic Sciences

George A. Akerlof - Male - 61 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information

Affiliation: University of California - USA

A. Michael Spence - Male - 58 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA

Joseph E. Stiglitz - Male - 58 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information

Affiliation: Columbia University - USA

2001 - Literature

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - Male - 69 years

Birth country: Trinidad and Tobago

Motivation: for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories

2001 - Medicine

Leland H. Hartwell - Male - 61 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle

Affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - USA

Tim Hunt - Male - 58 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle

Affiliation: Imperial Cancer Research Fund - United Kingdom

Sir Paul M. Nurse - Male - 52 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle

Affiliation: Imperial Cancer Research Fund - United Kingdom

2001 - Peace

Organization: United Nations (UN)

Country of Origin: USA

Motivation: for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

Kofi Atta Annan - Male - 63 years

Birth country: Ghana

Motivation: for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

2001 - Physics

Eric A. Cornell - Male - 39 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates

Affiliation: University of Colorado, JILA - USA

Wolfgang Ketterle - Male - 43 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Carl E. Wieman - Male - 50 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates

Affiliation: University of Colorado, JILA - USA

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