1999 Nobel Prizes

none The 1999 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 1999 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1999/ceremony-speech/ 2024-12-11 NobelPrize.org en-US Prizes Physics +Awardee(s)99x99pxGerard 't Hooft (b. 1946)Netherlands Dutch"for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1999/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081021034857/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1999/index.html 21 October 2008 9 October 2008 Nobel Foundation100x100pxMartinus J. G. Veltman (1931–2021) Chemistry Awardee(s)113x113pxAhmed Zewail (1946–2016)Egypt Egyptian United States American"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1999/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081008033958/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1999/index.html 8 October 2008 6 October 2008 Nobel Foundation Physiology or Medicine Awardee(s)112x112pxGünter Blobel (1936–2018)United States"for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1999/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20070718172945/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1999/index.html 18 July 2007 28 July 2007 Nobel Foundation Literature 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature Awardee(s)112x112pxGünter Grass (1927–2015)Germany (born in Free City of Danzig)"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212914/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/index.html 2008-10-17 2008-10-17 Nobel Foundation Peace Awardee(s) Médecins Sans FrontièresSwitzerland"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents."The Nobel Peace Prize 1999 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1999/summary/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20180821192012/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1999/summary/ 2018-08-21 2018-08-21 Nobel Foundation Economic Sciences Awardee(s)75x75pxRobert Mundell (1932–2021)Canada"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1999/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20081019180832/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1999/ 2008-10-19 2008-10-14 Nobel Foundation References Category:Nobel Prize by year Category:1999 awards