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.?