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Public Services Summit @ Nobel Week 2005

Laureates

Public Services Summit @ Nobel Week 2005
2005 Nobel Prize Laureates
Physiology or Medicine

Barry J. Marshall, NHMRC Helicobacter pylori Research Laboratory, QEII Medical Centre; University of Western Australia Nedlands, Australia

J. Robin Warren, Perth, Australia

"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"

Physics

Roy J. Glauber, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

"for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"

John L. Hall, Unviersity of Colorado, JILA; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA

Theodor W. Hänsch, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"

Chemisty

Yves Chauvin, Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France

Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA

Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"

Economics

Robert J. Aumann, Center for Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Thomas C. Schelling, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"

Literature

Harold Pinter, United Kingdom

"who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"

Peace

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of IAEA, Egypt

"for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"