Nobel Prize 1998: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Walter Kohn

   Chemistry

   for his development of the density-functional theory

2. Chemistry

   John A. Pople

   Chemistry

   for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry

3. Medicine

   Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system

4. Physics

   Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui

   Physics

   for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations