> with one half to Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of "human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" and the oder half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of "human immunodeficiency virus".

>with one half to Yoichiro Nambu, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and the other half jointly to Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan, and Toshihide Maskawa, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan, "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts in existence of at least three families of quarks in nature".

>jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA - Boston University Medical School, MA, USA, Martin Chalfie, Colombia University, NY, USA and Roger Y. Tsien, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP".