Nobel Prize 2001: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   William S. Knowles, Ryōji Noyori

   Chemistry

   for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions

2. Chemistry

   K. Barry Sharpless

   Chemistry

   for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions

3. Medicine

   Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Paul M. Nurse

   Biology

   for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle

4. Physics

   Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman

   Physics

   for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates