Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Their work on how governments can make credible promises changed the way central banks are run, and helped make the case for independent central banks.

11 October 2004 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2004 Nobel Peace Prize

Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, which has planted millions of trees.

8 October 2004 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2004 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Austrian writer is known for novels such as The Piano Teacher and for plays that attack violence and hypocrisy in society.

7 October 2004 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Their work showed how cells mark unwanted proteins with a small molecule called ubiquitin so that they can be broken down.

6 October 2004 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

The three physicists explained why the particles inside protons and neutrons, called quarks, behave almost as free particles when very close together but cannot be pulled apart.

5 October 2004 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Axel and Buck showed how a family of about 1,000 genes gives us a sense of smell, allowing people to recognise and remember around 10,000 different odours.

4 October 2004 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2003 Nobel Peace Prize

Ebadi, a lawyer, was one of Iran's first female judges before the 1979 revolution.

10 October 2003 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Agre discovered the channels that let water in and out of cells, and MacKinnon showed how channels for charged atoms such as potassium work.

8 October 2003 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2003 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Their methods are used to analyse financial markets and economic data that change over time.

8 October 2003 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2003 Nobel Prize in Physics

Superconductors carry electricity without resistance, and superfluids flow without friction.

7 October 2003 · Source: The Nobel Prize