2003 Nobel Prizes

none The 2003 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.Ulaby Neda October 6, 2005 Nobel Academy Silent on Literature Prize https://www.npr.org/2005/10/06/4947464/nobel-academy-silent-on-literature-prize NPR 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 2003 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2003/award-video/ 2024-12-10 NobelPrize.org en-US2013-06-01 The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2003 https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/the-nobel-prize-award-ceremony-2003-2003/ 2024-12-10 NobelPrize.org en-US Prizes Physics +Awardee(s)102x102pxAlexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928–2017)Russia Russian United States American"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2003/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081008110720/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2003/index.html 8 October 2008 9 October 2008 Nobel Foundation104x104pxVitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009)Russia Russian100x100pxAnthony James Leggett (1938–2026)United Kingdom British United States American Chemistry Awardee(s)113x113pxPeter Agre (b. 1949)United States American"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes [...] for the discovery of water channels"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2003/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20080929075139/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2003/index.html 29 September 2008 6 October 2008 Nobel Foundation98x98px|Roderick MacKinnonRoderick MacKinnon (b. 1956)"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes [...] for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels" Physiology or Medicine Awardee(s)95x95pxPaul Lauterbur (1929–2007)United States"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2003/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20070718172340/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2003/index.html 18 July 2007 28 July 2007 Nobel Foundation96x96pxSir Peter Mansfield (1933–2017)United Kingdom Literature 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature Awardee(s)121x121pxJohn Maxwell Coetzee (b. 1940)South Africa"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081019023435/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/index.html 2008-10-19 2008-10-17 Nobel Foundation Peace 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Awardee(s)90x90pxShirin Ebadi (born 1947)Iran"for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the rights of women and children."The Nobel Peace Prize 2003 https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2003/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034707/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2003/index.html 2008-10-21 2008-10-20 Nobel Foundation Economic Sciences Awardee(s)97x97pxRobert F. Engle (b. 1942)United States"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2003 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2003/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20081017151110/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2003/ 2008-10-17 2008-10-14 Nobel Foundation100x100pxClive Granger (1934–2009)United Kingdom"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)" Controversies Physiology or Medicine Lauterbur and Mansfield's awarding for magnetic resonance imaging development was criticized due to the Nobel Foundation's lack of acknowledgement for Raymond Damadian, a scientist who similarly contributed to the invention of the technology in the seventies alongside Lauterbur and Mansfield.Dreizen Paul 2004 The Nobel prize for MRI: a wonderful discovery and a sad controversy https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673603151823 The Lancet en 363 9402 78 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15182-3 14724008 References Category:Nobel Prize by year Category:2003 awards