* 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Bernard Katz, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1911 )

An Ig Nobel Tour has been an annual part of National Science week in the United Kingdom since 2003.

The determination of their molecular structure by Roderick MacKinnon using X-ray crystallography won a share of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 was awarded to two American scientists: Roderick MacKinnon for his studies on the physico-chemical properties of ion channel structure and function, including x-ray crystallographic structure studies, and Peter Agre for his similar work on aquaporins.

* 1918 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

* 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2003 )

* 1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

Reflecting the fundamental importance and applicability of MRI in medicine, Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their " discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging ".

Abrikosov and Ginzburg were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for their work ( Landau had received the 1962 Nobel Prize for other work, and died in 1968 ).

In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth ( of ten ) biggest problems facing the society of mankind for the next fifty years.

** Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

* July 15 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

* January 25 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( d. 2003 )

** Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

** Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2003 )

It was involved in the work that won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

" Among the award's recipients are several future Nobel Prize in Literature laureates, including Herta Müller ( 1998 winner with The Land of Green Plums ) and Orhan Pamuk ( 2003 winner with My Name Is Red ).

* Anthony Leggett, Nobel Laureate ( 2003, Physics )

Kim Dae-jung ( 3 December 1925 – 18 August 2009 ) was 8th President of the Republic of Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Other notable figures include Human Rights Lawyer Shirin Ebadi who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, pioneering architect Heydar Ghiai, prominent philosopher Hossein Nasr and reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi.

On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights.

Rumours occasionally circulated portraying Frame as a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature, most notably in 1998, after a journalist spotted her name at the top of a list later revealed to have been in alphabetical order, and again five years later, in 2003, when Åsa Beckman, the influential chief literary critic at the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, wrongly predicted that Frame would win the prestigious prize.

Female Muslim lawyer Shirin Ebadi ( winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize ) has been described as the ' conscience of the Islamic Republic ' for her work in protecting the human rights of women and children in Iran.

Aristotele, Milano: Bruno Mondadori Editore ( Prize 2003 of the " International Academy of the History of Science ") ISBN 88-424-9737-1.

In 2003, he was awarded the Kistler Prize for original contributions to the understanding of the connection between the human genome and human society.

* The Prize Fighter ( 2003 )

* Allen J. Scott ( born 1938 ), winner of Vautrin Lud Prize in 2003 and the Anders Retzius Gold medal 2009 ; author of numerous books and papers on economic and urban geography, known for his work on regional development, new industrial spaces, agglomeration theory, global city-regions and the cultural economy.

In being awarded the 2003 Henry C. Turner Prize by the National Building Museum, then-museum board chair Carolyn Brody praised his impact on construction innovation: " His magnificent designs have challenged engineers to devise innovative structural solutions, and his exacting expectations for construction quality have encouraged contractors to achieve high standards.

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

It won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music as well as the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition.

John Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his 9 / 11 memorial piece, On the Transmigration of Souls.

* Pulitzer Prize for Music for On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2003 )

* Pulitzer Prize biography ( 2003 )

Since 2003, the Abel Prize is awarded in the university's atrium.

* D. Rogers Computational Chemistry Using the PC, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons ( 2003 ).

* J. Simons An introduction to Theoretical Chemistry, Cambridge ( 2003 ) ISBN 978-0-521-53047-7.

* Roderick MacKinnon, co-recipient, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

See Simon Cotton, B. Sc., Ph. D., " Dimethylmercury and Mercury Poisoning ", Molecule of the Month ( MOTM ; published on the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, U. K. website ), October 2003 .</ ref > The incident is described in John Grant Fuller's book The Day of St Anthony's Fire.

The pioneering discoveries and research on water channels by Agre and his colleagues resulted in the presentation of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Agre in 2003.

* January 25-Ilya Prigogine ( died 2003 ), Russian-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

* R K Nesbet 2003 " Variational Principles and Methods In Theoretical Physics and Chemistry ".

* Chemistry ( before 2003 )

Kaplan, in Handbook of Molecular Physics and Quantum Chemistry, Wiley, 2003, p207.

Roderick MacKinnon ( born 19 February 1956 ) is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.

Peter Agre () ( born January 30, 1949 ) is an American physician, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon ) for his discovery of aquaporins.

The four heads of the Dyson Perrins Laboratory were four consecutive Waynflete Professors of Chemistry, from its foundation in 1916 as the University's research centre for organic chemistry to its retirement in 2003.

* James Ralph Hanson, Natural Products: The Secondary Metabolites ( 2003 ), Royal Society of Chemistry, ISBN 0-85404-490-6

* Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes, and Trade Secrets: The Classic Do-It-Yourself Book of Practical Everyday Chemistry by Harry Bennett, Adam Parfrey ( Feral House, 2003, ISBN 0-922915-95-4 )

* Peter C. Agre ( 1978 Internal Medicine alumnus )-co-recipient 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries that have clarified how salts and water are transported out of and into the cells of the body, leading to a better understanding of many diseases of the kidneys, heart, muscles and nervous system.

In 1998 the Department of Computer Science moved to Adlershof, followed by the Departments of Mathematics in 2000, Chemistry in 2001, and Physics, Geography and Psychology in 2003.

* Second to None ( Chemistry album ), 2003

Newly renovated and expanded in 2003, the Boyd Science Center is a state-of-the-art facility that serves as the home of PSU's three Natural Sciences departments: the Department of Biological Science ( Bio ); the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry ( ASC ), housing the university's highly regarded Meteorology program ; and the new Department of Environmental Science and Policy ( ES & P ).

In 2003, the Royal Society of Chemistry published a news release entitled " How to make a Perfect Cup of Tea.

* Peter Agre – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003