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Nobel Prizes 2001

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman

"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001

William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori

"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001

K. Barry Sharpless

"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001

Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse

"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2001

United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan

"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2001

George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz

"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"

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