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List of 2004 Nobel Prize Winners |
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Created: Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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Updated: Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
Peace:
Wangari Maathai (Kenya) for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace
Literature:
Elfriede Jelinek (Austria) for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power
Physics:
David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek (all U.S.) for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
Chemistry:
Aaron Ciechanover (Israel), Avram Hershko (Israel), and Irwin Rose (U.S.) for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
Physiology or Medicine:
Aaron Ciechanover (Israel), Avram Hershko (Israel), and Irwin Rose (U.S.) for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
Economics:
Finn E. Kydland (Norway) and Edward C. Prescott (U.S.) for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles.
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