* 1920 – George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

Some of this endeavor has been led by Gunduz Caginalp ( Professor of Mathematics and Editor of Journal of Behavioral Finance during 2001-2004 ) and collaborators including Vernon Smith ( 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics ), David Porter, Don Balenovich, Vladimira Ilieva, Ahmet Duran ).

* Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist ( 2002 )

Two books have been published with write-ups on some of the winners: The Ig Nobel Prize ( 2002, US paperback ISBN 0-452-28573-9, UK paperback ISBN 0-7528-4261-7 ) and The Ig Nobel Prize 2 ( 2005, US hardcover ISBN 0-525-94912-7, UK hardcover ISBN 0-7528-6461-0 ), which was later retitled The Man Who Tried to Clone Himself ( ISBN 0-452-28772-3 ).

Nobel Enterprises was sold in 2002 to Inabata.

* 1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

* 1910 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

* 1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1927 )

For these efforts, he was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992 as well as Honorary Doctorates from University of Calgary in 1993, Durham University in 1995, Trinity College in 2002 and University of Münster in 2005, and Eureka College in 2009.

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba were jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics ; Davis for his pioneer work on cosmic neutrinos and Koshiba for the first real time observation of supernova neutrinos.

* 1927 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

For example, the behavioral economist and experimental psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his work in this field.

** James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

** George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

* May 11 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

** Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

** Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

* October 8 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2002 )

Dr. Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, CBE, FRS ( 19 May 1914, Vienna, Austria – 6 February 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom ) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins.

Based on discoveries in this new field of X-ray astronomy, starting with Scorpius X-1, Riccardo Giacconi received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.

It was a major factor in the emergence of behavioral economics, earning Kahneman a Nobel Prize in 2002.

* Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, explores the metaphysical significance of the marketplace in a volume of poetry entitled Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known, 2002.

In 2002, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston for their work on the genetics of organ development and programmed cell death in C. elegans.

The first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate was awarded to George Bowering in 2002.

Other former Poets Laureate include, Hone Tuwhare ( 2000 – 01 ), Elizabeth Smither ( 2002 – 03 ), Brian Turner ( 2004 – 05 ), Jenny Bornholdt ( 2006 – 07 ), Michele Leggott ( 2008 – 09 ) and Cilla McQueen ( 2009 – 11 ).

The first Poet Laureate was David Lee who was appointed from January 24, 1997 to December 2002.

* Gerald Stern ( born 1925 ), poet and Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2000 to 2002

In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in economics, has called FHLMC and FNMA " implicitly taxpayer-backed agencies ".

* Riccardo Giacconi, physicist and 2002 Nobel Laureate

Knussen has been Principal Guest Conductor of The Hague's Het Residentie Orkest ( Residentie Orchestra ) between 1992 and 1996, the Aldeburgh Festival's co-Artistic Director between 1983 and 1998 and the London Sinfonietta's Music Director between 1998 and 2002 – and is now that ensemble's Conductor Laureate.

Noted faculty poets include George Starbuck ( 1983 Lenore Marshall Prize ), Charles Olson, Robert Creeley ( Bollingen Prize 1999 ), John Logan, ( Lenore Marshall Prize 1982 ), Irving Feldman ( MacArthur Foundation Fellow 1992 ), Carl Dennis ( 2000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ; 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ), Robert Hass ( Poet Laureate of the United States 1995-97, 2007 National Book Award, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ), Charles Bernstein ( co-founder of the University's notable Poetics Program ), Steve McCaffery, and Susan Howe ( Bollingen Prize 2011 ).

Additionally he was recognized as one of the Top 25 Global Managers, BusinessWeek, 1996 ; Laureate in Aviation Trophy, National Air and Space Museum, 1997 ; 25 Most Influential Executives, Business Travel News, 1998, 2000 ; 50 Best CEOs in America, Worth, 2001, 2002, 2003 ; Airline Person of the Year, Travel Agent, 2001.

As a result, USD has been able to host the West Coast Conference ( WCC ) basketball tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2008, and hosted international functions such as the Kyoto Laureate Symposium at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and at USD's Shiley Theatre.

In 1999 he was named New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate, the outcome of which was the publication Piggy-Back Moon ( 2002 ).

Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in economics, has called FHLMC and FNMA " implicitly taxpayer-backed agencies.

In June 2001 Gonzalo received the SFJAZZ Leaders Circle Laureate Award, and in 2002 he performed as Artist in Residence at Montreal Jazz Festival together with Chucho Valdez.

* Julie Boden became the seventh Poet Laureate for Birmingham in October 2002.

In addition, Bornholdt won the 2002 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, was a recipient of one of the 2003 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Awards, and was named the fifth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate in 2005.

* 2002: European Woman Laureate Award

Dyer has performed on stage, most notably in two plays written and directed by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter: as the Waiter in the London première of Celebration ( 2000 ), at the Almeida Theatre, which transferred to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York, as part of the Harold Pinter Festival held there in July and August 2001 ; and as Foster in the revival of No Man's Land ( 1975 ), at the Royal National Theatre, in London, during 2001 and 2002.

He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2006.

Yuri Ershov is a Laureate of Malcev's Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1992 ), Russian State Award in the area of Science and Technics ( 2002, 2003 ), and Lavrentjev's Foundation Award ( 2007 ), is decorated with several Russian State Orders.