1999 Nobel Science Prizes Announced

Andrew Childs writes "The 1999 Nobel Prizes in the sciences have been announced. The physics prize goes to Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics." The chemistry prize goes to Ahmed Zewail "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy." And the prize in physiology or medicine goes to Gunter Blobel "for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell." "

Comments

The computing equivalent is the Turing award

[JoeBuck]

The closest thing to a Nobel in computer science is the Turing Award, given by the ACM.

For mathematics, the closest equivalent is the Fields medal.