Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Their discoveries led to magnetic resonance imaging, the MRI scanner now found in hospitals around the world.

6 October 2003 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

The South African novelist is best known for Disgrace and Life and Times of Michael K, both of which won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to win it twice.

2 October 2003 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2002 Nobel Peace Prize

The former American president has worked for peace and human rights around the world since leaving office in 1981, through the Carter Center.

11 October 2002 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2002 Nobel Prize in Literature

Kertész survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a teenager, and his novel Fatelessness draws on that experience.

10 October 2002 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Their methods allow scientists to weigh and map large biological molecules such as proteins.

9 October 2002 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Kahneman, a psychologist, showed how people make decisions that depart from the rational models of traditional economics.

9 October 2002 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2002 Nobel Prize in Physics

Davis and Koshiba detected neutrinos from the Sun and from an exploding star, and Giacconi built the instruments that found the first X-ray sources outside the solar system.

8 October 2002 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Working with a tiny worm, the three scientists showed how genes control the development of organs and how cells are programmed to die.

7 October 2002 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2001 Nobel Peace Prize

The prize, awarded in the centenary year of the Nobel Peace Prize, honours the United Nations and its Secretary-General.

12 October 2001 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2001 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Trinidad-born, British-based author wrote novels and travel books including A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River.

11 October 2001 · Source: The Nobel Prize