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1998

Nobel Prize Winners

12 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 98th Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
12
Categories
06
Countries
05
Ceremony
98th Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

3 Laureates

Chemistry

2 Laureates

Physiology or Medicine

Literature

1 Laureate

José Saramago

Portugal

who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality

Peace

2 Laureates

Economic Sciences

Amartya Sen

India

for his contributions to welfare economics

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