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2003 Nobel Prize Winners

  • Peace: Shirin Ebadi (Iran), for her work as a human rights activist and lawyer.
  • Literature: J. M. Coetzee (South Africa).
  • Physics: Alexei A. Abrikosov (Russia, U.S.), Anthony J. Leggett (UK, U.S.), and Vitaly L. Ginzburg (Russia), for theories about superconductivity.
  • Chemistry: Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon (both U.S.) for studies on channels in cell walls.
  • Medicine: Paul C. Lauterbur (U.S.) and Sir Peter Mansfield (UK) for discoveries leading to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  • Economics: Robert F. Engle (U.S.) and Clive W. J. Granger (UK), for developing statistical tools to improve analysis of stock prices and other data.

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