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Nobel Prizes 2002

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Raymond Davis Jr. thumb pictureMasatoshi Koshiba thumb picture
The Nobel Prize in Physics
Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
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The Nobel Prize in Physics
Riccardo Giacconi "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules"
John B. Fenn thumb pictureKoichi Tanaka thumb picture
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Kurt Wüthrich "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
Sydney Brenner thumb pictureH. Robert Horvitz thumb pictureJohn E. Sulston thumb picture
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"
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The Nobel Prize in Literature
Imre Kertész "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
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The Nobel Peace Prize
Jimmy Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development"
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The Prize in Economic Sciences
Daniel Kahneman "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"
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The Prize in Economic Sciences
Vernon L. Smith "for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"
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