CHEMISTRY |
Louis E. Brus Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor Department of Chemistry Columbia University New York, New York, USA For discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) |
Akira Fujishima President, Tokyo University of Science Special University Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo Supreme Advisor, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology Tokyo, Japan For the discovery of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (the Honda-Fujishima Effect) |
Masatake Haruta Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan -and- Graham J. Hutchings Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Center Cardiff University Cardiff, Wales U.K. For independent foundational discoveries of catalysis by gold |
PHYSICS |
Charles H. Bennett IBM Fellow Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM Corporation Yorktown Heights, New York, USA -and- Gilles Brassard Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing University of Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada -and- William K. Wootters Barclay Jermain Professor of Natural Philosophy Department of Physics Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA For their pioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation, which has since been experimentally verified |
Leigh T. Canham Chief Scientific Officer pSiMedica Ltd. Malvern Honorary Professor School of Physics and Astronomy University of Birmingham Birmingham, England, U.K. For discovery of photoluminescence in porous silicon |
Stephen E. Harris Kenneth and Barbara Oshman Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics Emeritus Stanford University Stanford, California, USA -and- Lene V. Hau Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA For the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of ‘slow light’ (Harris and Hau) |
PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE |
C. David Allis Tri-Institutional Professor and Joy and Jack Fishman Professor Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics Rockefeller University New York, New York, USA -and- Michael Grunstein Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, USA For fundamental discoveries concerning histone modifications and their role in genetic regulation |
Anthony “Tony” R. Hunter American Cancer Society Professor Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory Renato Dulbecco Chair Salk Institute for Biological Studies Adjunct Professor, Section of Molecular Biology University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California, USA For the discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation and contributions to understanding protein kinases and their role in signal transduction -and- Anthony “Tony” J. Pawson Distinguished Scientist and Apotex Chair in Molecular Oncology Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada For identification of the phosphotyrosine binding SH2 domain and demonstrating its function in protein-protein interactions |
Richard O. Hynes Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA -and- Erkki Ruoslahti Distinguished Professor, Center for Nanomedicine Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California, USA -and- Masatoshi Takeichi Director, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology Kobe, Japan For pioneering discoveries of cell adhesion molecules, Hynes and Ruoslahti for integrins and Takeichi for cadherins
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ECONOMICS |
Sir Anthony B. Atkinson Research Professor, Department of Economics Oxford University, Oxford, England U.K. For studies of income inequality and contributions to welfare state and public sector economics -and- Angus S. Deaton Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey, USA For empirical research on consumption, income and savings, poverty and health, and well-being |
Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and Professor of Finance The MIT Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA For his arbitrage pricing theory and other fundamental contributions to finance |
Robert J. Shiller Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and Professor of Finance The International Center for Finance Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA For pioneering contributions to financial market volatility and the dynamics of asset prices | |