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.
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.
Prizes
Physics +Awardee(s)Gerard 't Hooft (b. 1946) Dutch"for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics"Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931–2021)
Chemistry Awardee(s)Ahmed Zewail (1946–2016) Egyptian American"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"
Physiology or Medicine Awardee(s)Günter Blobel (1936–2018)"for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"
Literature
Awardee(s)Günter Grass (1927–2015)(born in Free City of Danzig)"whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"
Peace Awardee(s) Médecins Sans Frontières"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents."
Economic Sciences Awardee(s)Robert Mundell (1932–2021)"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"
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