2001 Nobel Laureates
The Nobel Prizes honor outstanding accomplishments in Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, Literature, Economics and Peace every year.
The 2001 laureates are:
- Physics
Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman, "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation."
- Chemistry
William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori and K. Barry Sharpless, "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation and oxidation reactions."
- Physiology or Medicine
Leland H. Hartwell, R. Timothy Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse, "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle."
- Literature
Sir V.S. Naipaul of Great Britain
- Peace
United Nations and Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary General
- Economics
George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."
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