1999 Nobel Prize Announcements <Prev Next>

The 1999 Nobel Prizes are awarded in the early October, (time given in Stockholm time; subtract 6 hours to get the US Eastern Standard Time). The Nobel Prizes awarded in Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, and Peace as well as the Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced. 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 15, 1999, at 11.00 a.m Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the winner is... Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières). Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 at 11:45 a.m. at the earliest Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winner is... Robert A. Mundell " for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas. " Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 at 3 p.m. (at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winner is... Ahmed H. Zewail " for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy. " Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 at 11:45 a.m. at the earliest Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman " for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics. " Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 at 11:30 a.m. Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the winner is... Günter Blobel "proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell" Date: Thursday, September 30 at 1:00 pm. Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the winner is... Günter Grass "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 at 7:30 pm EDT Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research