2001 Nobel Prizes

The 2001Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. ^[1]

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. ^{[2] [3]}

Prizes

Physics

Awardee(s)
	Eric Allin Cornell (b. 1961)	American	"for the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"	[4]
	Carl Wieman (b. 1951)
	Wolfgang Ketterle (b. 1957)	German

Chemistry

Awardee(s)
	William S. Knowles (1917–2012)	American	"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"	[5]
	Ryōji Noyori (b. 1938)	Japanese
	K. Barry Sharpless (b. 1941)	American	"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"	[5]

Physiology or Medicine

Awardee(s)
	Leland H. Hartwell (b. 1939)	United States	"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"	[6]
	Sir Tim Hunt (b. 1943)	United Kingdom
	Sir Paul M. Nurse (b. 1949)

Literature

Main article: 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature

Awardee(s)
	Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932–2018)	United Kingdom   Trinidad and Tobago	"for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"	[7]

Peace

Main article: 2001 Nobel Peace Prize

Awardee(s)
	United Nations	United Nations	"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world."	[8]
	Kofi Annan (1938–2018)	Ghana

Economic Sciences

Awardee(s)
	George Akerlof (b. 1940)	United States	"for their analyses of markets with information asymmetry"	[9]
	Michael Spence (b. 1943)
	Joseph Stiglitz (b. 1943)

References

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