Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Many molecules come in left and right-handed forms, and only one form may be useful as a medicine.

10 October 2001 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2001 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Their work explains what happens when one side of a deal knows more than the other, as in the market for second-hand cars, insurance or jobs.

10 October 2001 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

Bose-Einstein condensation, predicted by Einstein in the 1920s, is a state of matter in which atoms cooled to near absolute zero behave as a single quantum object.

9 October 2001 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The three scientists identified the key molecules that control how cells divide.

8 October 2001 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2000 Nobel Peace Prize

The South Korean president held a historic summit with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang in June, the first meeting between the leaders of the two Koreas.

13 October 2000 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2000 Nobel Prize in Literature

Gao, who left China in 1987 and settled in France, is the first writer in Chinese to receive the prize.

12 October 2000 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Heckman's methods correct for the bias that arises when researchers study only part of a population, while McFadden's work explains how people choose between alternatives such as modes of transport.

11 October 2000 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Plastics were long thought of as insulators.

10 October 2000 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2000 Nobel Prize in Physics

Their work is found in almost every piece of modern electronics.

10 October 2000 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Their research showed how nerve cells pass signals to one another through chemical messengers such as dopamine.

9 October 2000 · Source: The Nobel Prize