1999 Nobel Prizes
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The 1999 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.{{Cite web |title=All Nobel Prizes |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes/1999-1990/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1999 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1999/ceremony-speech/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Prizes
= Physics =
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(b. 1946) | rowspan="2" |{{flagdeco|Netherlands}} Dutch | rowspan="2" |"for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics" | rowspan="2" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1999/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034857/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1999/index.html |archive-date=21 October 2008 |access-date=9 October 2008 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}} |
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(1931–2021) |
= Chemistry =
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(1946–2016) |{{flagdeco|Egypt}} Egyptian {{flagdeco|United States}} American |"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy" |
= Physiology or Medicine =
= Literature =
{{Main page|1999 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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(1927–2015) |{{flag|Germany}} (born in Free City of Danzig) |"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history" |
= Peace =
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|{{Flag|Switzerland}} |"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents." |
= Economic Sciences =
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(1932–2021) |{{flag|Canada}} |"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas" |
