Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 2000: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa

    Chemistry

    for the discovery and development of conductive polymers

  2. Medicine

    Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system

  3. Physics

    Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer

    Physics

    for basic work on information and communication technology; for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics

  4. Physics

    Jack S. Kilby

    Physics

    for basic work on information and communication technology; for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit