1998 Nobel Prize Announcements <Prev Next>

The 1998 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: Friday, October 16, at 11 a.m. Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the winners are... John Hume and David Trimble "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland." Date: Wednesday, October 14, at 11:30 a.m. at the earliest Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winner is... Amartya Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics." Date: Tuesday, October 13, at 11:45 a.m. at the earliest Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, and Daniel C. Tsui, "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations." Date: Tuesday, October 13, at 3 p.m. at the earliest Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... Walter Kohn "for his development of the density-functional theory" and John A. Pople, "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry." Date: Monday, October 12, at 11:30 a.m. Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the winners are... Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, and Ferid Murad, for their discoveries concerning "nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system" Date: Thursday, October 8, at 1 p.m. Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the winner is... José Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality" Date: Thursday, October 8 Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research