Nobel Prize Winners of 2003

In 2003, 11 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.

2003 - Chemistry

Peter Agre - Male - 54 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of water channels

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - USA

Roderick MacKinnon - Male - 47 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels

Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA

2003 - Economic Sciences

Robert F. Engle III - Male - 60 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)

Affiliation: New York University - USA

Clive W.J. Granger - Male - 69 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)

Affiliation: University of California - USA

2003 - Literature

John M. Coetzee - Male - 63 years

Birth country: South Africa

Motivation: who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider

2003 - Medicine

Paul C. Lauterbur - Male - 74 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging

Affiliation: University of Illinois - USA

Sir Peter Mansfield - Male - 69 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging

Affiliation: University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy - United Kingdom

2003 - Peace

Shirin Ebadi - Female - 56 years

Birth country: Iran

Motivation: for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children

2003 - Physics

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov - Male - 75 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids

Affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory - USA

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg - Male - 87 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids

Affiliation: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute - Russia

Anthony J. Leggett - Male - 65 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids

Affiliation: University of Illinois - USA

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