2008 Woodie Awards
2005 Nobel Prizes In Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace, and Economics Are Awarded
The annual Nobel Prizes are awarded to distinguised individuals in their field.
Kim Lyon
Issue date: 10/14/05 Section: News
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The 2005 Nobel Prizes are under way. So far the winners of five of the prizes have been announced. Even though the prestige of being a Nobel Prize winner is more than sufficient, the winning laureates of each prize share a total of Ten Million Swedish kronor. This makes the fifth consecutive year in which that amount has been awarded as the prize.
On October 3, 2005, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren of Australia for their discovery of a new bacterium and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
The next day, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced its decision to name Roy J. Glauber of the USA, John L. Hall also of the USA, and Theodore W. Hänsch of Germany the recipients of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics. Glauber is to receive one half of the prize "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical conherence." Hall and Hänsch will split the other half for their work in the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy.
On October 5, the Academy also announced three winners for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Yves Chauvin of France; Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock of the USA. The awardees each received one-third of the prize "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis."
The most famous of the prize series followed two days later. The Nobel Peace Prize, its former winners including Woodrow Wilson, Mother Theresa, Mikhail Gorbachev and the 14th Dalai Lama, was shared between the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and its General Director Mohamed ElBaradei of Egypt. The prize was allocated "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way."
The latest prize announcement took place on October 10. The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005 was given to Thomas C. Schelling of the USA and Robert J. Aumann of Israel and the USA. They were chosen as the victors because of their game-theory approach to the question of why some groups of individuals and countries succeed in advancing cooperation while others undergo conflict. There have been 57 winners of the Economics prize since its first addition to the list of Nobel Prizes in 1969.
The Swedish Academy was scheduled to make its last announcement - the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature - yesterday, October 13. So far 155 individuals and 18 organizations have been awarded a Nobel Prize. The nominees who do not win this year will not be revealed until 2055 because the Nobel Foundation keeps all investigation and nomination information secret for 50 years.
On October 3, 2005, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren of Australia for their discovery of a new bacterium and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
The next day, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced its decision to name Roy J. Glauber of the USA, John L. Hall also of the USA, and Theodore W. Hänsch of Germany the recipients of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics. Glauber is to receive one half of the prize "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical conherence." Hall and Hänsch will split the other half for their work in the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy.
On October 5, the Academy also announced three winners for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Yves Chauvin of France; Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock of the USA. The awardees each received one-third of the prize "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis."
The most famous of the prize series followed two days later. The Nobel Peace Prize, its former winners including Woodrow Wilson, Mother Theresa, Mikhail Gorbachev and the 14th Dalai Lama, was shared between the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and its General Director Mohamed ElBaradei of Egypt. The prize was allocated "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way."
The latest prize announcement took place on October 10. The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005 was given to Thomas C. Schelling of the USA and Robert J. Aumann of Israel and the USA. They were chosen as the victors because of their game-theory approach to the question of why some groups of individuals and countries succeed in advancing cooperation while others undergo conflict. There have been 57 winners of the Economics prize since its first addition to the list of Nobel Prizes in 1969.
The Swedish Academy was scheduled to make its last announcement - the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature - yesterday, October 13. So far 155 individuals and 18 organizations have been awarded a Nobel Prize. The nominees who do not win this year will not be revealed until 2055 because the Nobel Foundation keeps all investigation and nomination information secret for 50 years.