Nobel Prize 2002: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka

   Chemistry

   for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules

2. Chemistry

   Kurt Wüthrich

   Chemistry

   for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution

3. Medicine

   Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'

4. Physics

   Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba

   Physics

   for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos

5. Physics

   Riccardo Giacconi

   Physics

   for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources