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Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004

"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom
in the theory of the strong interaction"

David J. Gross, H. David Politzer & Frank Wilczek

Press release: http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/2004/press.html

Nobel Prize Medal for Physics and Chemistry

David Gross
USA
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
b. 1941
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/kitpnews/item/?id=16

H. David Politzer
USA
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
b. 1947
http://theory.caltech.edu/people/politzer/

Frank Wilczek
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, USA
b. 1951
http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/frank_wilczek.html

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004

"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"

Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko & Irwin Rose

Press release: http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2003/press.html

Aaron Ciechanover
Israel
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel
b. 1947
http://md.technion.ac.il/inner/index.php

Avram Hershko
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel
b. 1937
http://md.technion.ac.il/inner/index.php

Irwin Rose
USA
University of California
Irvine, CA, USA
b. 1926
http://www.fccc.edu/news/2004/Nobel-Winner-Rose/

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Nobel Prize in Medicine/ Physiology for 2004

"for their discoveries of odorant receptors
and the organization of the olfactory system"

Richard Axel & Linda B. Buck

Press release: http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2004/press.html

Nobel Prize Medal for Physiology or Medicine

Richard Axel
USA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chevy Chase, MD, USA; Columbia University
New York, NY,
b. 1946
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/axel_bio.html

Linda B. Buck
USA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chevy Chase, MD, USA; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/buck_bio.html

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LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION

Nobel Prize Internet Archive http://www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html
Biographies of Nobel Prize winners, with links to other sites containing information. Quick search available or can be browsed by Nobel Prize category.

Nobel Prize Internet Archive: Women http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html
Biographies of women Nobel Prize winners

Nobel e-museum http://www.nobel.se/index.html
The Nobel e-museum is the official Web site of the Nobel Foundation. It contains information on all 758 Prize Winners to date, the Nobel Organization, Alfred Nobel, and Nobel events, as well as educational material and games. Nobel e-Museum consists of more than 9,000 static documents, several databases and a number of multimedia productions with Nobel Prize connection.

Nobel channel http://www.nobelchannel.com/
The Nobel Channel Web site the productions and archives from Swedish Television (SVT) and the Interactive Media Group,a Trans World International subsidiary. It features multimedia programs such as video portraits of laureates and cybercasts of Nobel Week. Also includes historical references, Alfred Nobel, and interactive learning studio

Nobel laureates in physics http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel/

Deaf nobel prize winners http://library.gallaudet.edu/dr/faq-deaf-nobel-prize.html

CNN.com's Nobel Centennial http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/nobel.100/

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