2001 Nobel Prizes
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The 2001 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 news |last=Ulaby |first=Neda |date=October 6, 2005 |title=Nobel Academy Silent on Literature Prize |url=https://www.npr.org/2005/10/06/4947464/nobel-academy-silent-on-literature-prize |work=NPR}}
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 |date=2013-06-01 |title=The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony 2001 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-peace-prize-award-ceremony-2001-2001/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Royen |first=Ulrika |date=2014-03-06 |title=Photo gallery - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2001 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-2001/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Prizes
= Physics =
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(b. 1961) | rowspan="2" |{{flagdeco|United States}} American | rowspan="3" |"for the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates" | rowspan="3" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019182316/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001/index.html |archive-date=19 October 2008 |access-date=9 October 2008 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}} |
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(b. 1951) |
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(b. 1957) |{{flagdeco|Germany}} German |
= Chemistry =
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(1917–2012) |{{flagdeco|United States}} American | rowspan="2" |"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" |
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(b. 1938) |{{flagdeco|Japan}} Japanese |
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(b. 1941) |{{flagdeco|United States}} American |"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions" |
= Physiology or Medicine =
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! colspan="5" |Awardee(s) |
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(b. 1939) |{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="3" |"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" |
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|Sir Tim Hunt (b. 1943) | rowspan="2" |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |
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|Sir Paul M. Nurse (b. 1949) |
= Literature =
{{Main page|2001 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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|Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018) |{{flag|United Kingdom}} {{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} |"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories" |
= Peace =
= Economic Sciences =
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(b. 1940) | rowspan="3" |{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="3" |"for their analyses of markets with information asymmetry" |
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(b. 1943) |
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(b. 1943) |
== References ==