List of 2004 Nobel Prize Winners
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 clich?s 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.?