1998 Nobel Prizes

none The 1998 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.All Nobel Prizes https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes/1999-1990/ 2024-12-11 NobelPrize.org en-US 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.The Nobel Peace Prize 1998 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1998/ceremony-speech/ 2024-12-11 NobelPrize.org en-US2013-06-01 The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 1998 https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-1998-1998/ 2024-12-11 NobelPrize.org en-US Prizes Physics +Awardee(s)94x94pxRobert B. Laughlin (b. 1950)United States American"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081211005110/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/index.html 11 December 2008 9 October 2008 Nobel Foundation85x85pxHorst Ludwig Störmer (b. 1949)Germany German97x97pxDaniel C. Tsui (b. 1939)United States American Chemistry Awardee(s)90x90px|Walter KohnWalter Kohn (1923–2016)Austria Austrian United States American"for his development of the density-functional theory"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1998/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081026023225/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1998/index.html 26 October 2008 6 October 2008 Nobel FoundationJohn Anthony PopleJohn A. Pople (1925–2004)United Kingdom British"for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry" Physiology or Medicine Awardee(s)75x75pxRobert F. Furchgott (1916–2009)United States"for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1998/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20131015152133/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1998/index.html 15 October 2013 28 July 2007 Nobel Foundation96x96pxLouis J. Ignarro (b. 1941)93x93pxFerid Murad (1936–2023) Literature 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature Awardee(s)118x118pxJosé Saramago (1922–2010)Portugal"who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081019023430/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/index.html 2008-10-19 2008-10-17 Nobel Foundation Peace Awardee(s)95x95pxJohn Hume (1937–2020)Ireland"for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland."The Nobel Peace Prize 1998 https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1998/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081028225055/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1998/index.html 2008-10-28 2008-10-20 Nobel Foundation100x100pxDavid Trimble (1944–2022)United Kingdom Economic Sciences Awardee(s)90x90pxAmartya Sen (b. 1933)India"for his contributions to welfare economics"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1998/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20141011195928/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1998/ 2014-10-11 2008-10-14 Nobel Foundation Controversies Physiology or Medicine The award provoked some outcry from the scientific community for not acknowledging Salvador Moncada, a scientist who significantly contributed to the awarded discoveries with Furchgott.Howlett R. 1998 Nobel award stirs up debate on nitric oxide breakthrough Nature 395 6703 625–26 1998Natur.395Q.625H 10.1038/27019 9790176 freeSoRelle Ruth 1998 Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientists for Nitric Oxide Discoveries Circulation 98 22 2365–2366 10.1161/01.cir.98.22.2365 9832478 free References Category:Nobel Prize by year Category:1998 awards