Nobel Prize 1999: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Ahmed H. Zewail

   Chemistry

   for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy

2. Medicine

   Günter Blobel

   Biology

   for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell

3. Physics

   Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman

   Physics

   for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics