Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2002
"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules"
firstname: John B.
surname: Fenn
motivation: "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
firstname: Koichi
surname: Tanaka
motivation: "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
firstname: Kurt
surname: Wüthrich
motivation: "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"