Nobel Prizes
Peace
Kofi Annan and the United Nations "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"
Physiology or Medicine
Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt, and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle". Economic Sciences: George Akerlog, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric informati
Chemistry
William Knowles and Ryoji Noyori "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" and to K. Barry Sharpless "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
Physics
Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
Literature
V.S. Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"
Pulitzer Prizes
Public Service
The Oregonian National Reporting: Staff of The New York Times International Reporting: Ian Johnson , The Wall Street Journal Editorial Writing: David Moats, The Rutland Herald Editorial Cartooning: Ann Telnaes , The Los Angeles Times Syndicate Breaking News Photography: Alan Diaz, The Associated Press Feature Photography: Matt Rainey, The Star Ledger Commentary: Dorothy Rabinowitz, The Wall Street Journal Criticism: Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe Feature Writing: Tom Hallman Jr., The Chicago Tribune Beat Reporting: David Cay Johnson, The New York Times Explanatory Reporting: The Chicago Tribune, Staff Investigative Reporting: David William, Los Angeles Times Breaking News: The Miami Herald Staff
Fiction
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Drama
David Auburn, Proff Biography/Auto
biography
David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
History
Joseph Ellis, The Revolutionary Generation
Poetry
Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
General Nonfiction
Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Music
John Corigliano, Symphony no. 2 for String Orchestra - Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1429421741137-1'); }); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); © 1996-2022