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Nobel Prizes 1999

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999

Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman

"for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999

Ahmed H. Zewail

"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999

Günter Blobel

"for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999

Günter Grass

"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1999

Médecins Sans Frontières

"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents"

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1999

Robert A. Mundell

"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"

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