2004 in Science - Awards

Awards

• Nobel Prize
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel
  • Nobel Prize in Physics: David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose
• Abel Prize in Mathematics: Michael F. Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer
• Millennium Technology Prize (inaugural year): World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee
• Descartes Prize for outstanding cross-border research
  • Mitochondrial Biogenesis, Ageing and Disease project (co-ordinator Howard Trevor Jacobs)
  • Long Distance Photonic Quantum Communication project (co-ordinator Anders Karlsson)