1997 Nobel Prize Announcements <Prev Next>

The 1997 Nobel Prizes are awarded in the early October, in the following reverse chronological order (time given in Stockholm time; subtract 6 hours to get the US Estern Standard Time). If you use a JavaScript-enabled browser, move your mouse over the prize category and the status bar will display how soon the prize in this category will be announced.

Date: Wednesday, October 15, at 2 p.m. at the earliest Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" and Jens C. Skou "for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+-ATPase." Date: Wednesday, October 15, at 11:45 a.m. at the earliest Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and William D. Phillips "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light." Date: Tuesday, October 14, at 11:30 a.m. at the earliest Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives." Date: Friday, October 10, at 11 a.m. Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo And the winners are... International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines." Date: Thursday, October 9, at 1 p.m. Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the winner is... Dario Fo "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden." Date: Monday, October 6, at 11:30 a.m. Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the winner is... Stanley B. Prusiner "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection." Date: Thursday, October 9 Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research