> jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA, Carol W. Greider, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA and Jack W. Szostak, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase".

>with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, United Kingdom - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, and George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, Kyoto University, Japan, "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor".

>jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA - Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".