Nobel Prize 2004: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose

   Chemistry

   for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

2. Medicine

   Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck

   Biology

   for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system

3. Physics

   David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek

   Physics

   for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction