Nobel Prizes
Peace
Wangari Maathai (Kenya) "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
Physiology or Medicine
Linda B. Buck & Richard Axel "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" Economic Sciences: Finn E. Kydland (Norway) & Edward C. Prescott (USA) "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics
Chemistry
Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko & Irwin Rose "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
Physics
David J. Gross, K. David Politzer & Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
Literature
Elfriede Jenilek (Austria - German)
Pulitzer Prizes
Public Service
New York Times National Reporting: Staff, Los Angeles Times International Reporting: Anthony Shahid, Washington Post Editorial Writing: William R. Stall, Los Angeles Times Editorial Cartooning: Matt Davies, White Plains (NY) Journal News Photography: Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times Commentary: Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald Criticism: Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times Feature Writing: No award Beat Reporting: Daniel Golden, Wall Street Journal Explanatory Reporting: Kevin Helliker and Thomas M. Burton, Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporting: Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss & Joe Mahr, The Blade (Toledo, OH) Breaking News: Staff, Los Angeles Times
Fiction
Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Drama
Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife Biography/Auto
biography
William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
History
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Poetry
Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard
General Nonfiction
Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
Music
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