List of Nobel laureates From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Nobel laureate Jump to: navigation search U.S. President George W. Bush with the six 2003 American Nobel laureates in the Oval Office . From left to right, Dr. Roderick MacKinnon , New York City (chemistry); Dr. Anthony Leggett , Urbana, Illinois (physics); Dr. Robert Engle , New York City (economics); Dr. Alexei Abrikosov , Argonne, Illinois (physics); Dr. Peter Agre , Baltimore, Maryland (chemistry); and Dr. Paul Lauterbur , Urbana, Illinois (physiology/medicine). The Nobel Prizes Swedish Nobelpriset Norwegian Nobelprisen ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , the Swedish Academy , the Karolinska Institute , and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry physics literature peace , and physiology or medicine They were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel , which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation . Another prize, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences , was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank , the central bank of Sweden , for contributors to the field of economics. | |
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