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2004 Nobel Prize Laureates |
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| Physiology or Medicine |
Richard Axel, USA
Linda B. Buck, USA
"for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"
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| Physics |
David J. Gross, USA
H. David Politzer, USA
Frank Wilczek, USA
"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
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| Chemistry |
Aaron Ciechanover, Israel
Avram Hershko, Israel
Irwin Rose, USA
"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
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| Economics |
Finn E. Kydland, USA
Edward C. Prescott, USA
"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"
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| Literature |
Elfriede Jelinek, Austria
"for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power"
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| Peace |
Wangari Maathai, Kenya
"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
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