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1999

Nobel Prize Winners

6 laureates honored across 5 categories in the 99th Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
6
Categories
05
Countries
04
Ceremony
99th Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

2 Laureates

Chemistry

1 Laureate

Ahmed Zewail

United States

for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy

Physiology or Medicine

Günter Blobel

Germany

for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell

Literature

1 Laureate

Günter Grass

Germany

whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history

Economic Sciences

Robert Mundell

Canada

for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas

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