Nobel Prize Winners of 2004

Aaron Ciechanover - Male - 57 years

Birth country: Israel

Motivation: for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

Affiliation: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Israel

Avram Hershko - Male - 66 years

Birth country: Hungary

Motivation: for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

Affiliation: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Israel

Irwin Rose - Male - 78 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

Affiliation: University of California - USA

Finn E. Kydland - Male - 60 years

Birth country: Norway

Motivation: for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles

Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University - USA; University of California - USA

Edward C. Prescott - Male - 63 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles

Affiliation: Arizona State University - USA; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - USA

Elfriede Jelinek - Female - 57 years

Birth country: Austria

Motivation: for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power

Richard Axel - Male - 58 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system

Affiliation: Columbia University - USA

Linda B. Buck - Female - 57 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system

Affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - USA

Wangari Muta Maathai - Female - 64 years

Birth country: Kenya

Motivation: for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace

David J. Gross - Male - 63 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction

Affiliation: University of California, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics - USA

H. David Politzer - Male - 55 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction

Affiliation: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA

Frank Wilczek - Male - 53 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA