Medicine 醫學獎:
Donald Unger of Thousand Oaks, California, US, for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand but not his right hand every day for more than 60 years.
來自美國加州紹森歐克斯的唐納德·昂格爾60多年來每天不斷敲打左手指關節,并跟右手對照,研究會否導致關節炎。
Economics 經濟學獎:
The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa (and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy).
四家冰島銀行的負責人、行政主管以及審計員向世人證明了小銀行可以迅速成長為大銀行,反之亦然。(同樣的道理也會發生在整個國民經濟當中。)
Physics 物理獎:
Katherine K Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, Daniel E Lieberman of Harvard University and Liza J Shapiro of the University of Texas, all in the US, for analytically determining why pregnant women do not tip over.
美國辛辛那提大學的凱瑟琳·K·惠特科姆、哈佛大學的丹尼爾·E·利伯曼、得州大學的莉莎·J·夏皮羅研究出孕婦不會失去重心向前撲倒的原因。
Chemistry 化學獎:
Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M Castano of Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico, for creating diamonds from tequila.
化學獎由墨西哥國立自治大學科學家哈維爾·莫拉萊斯、米格爾·阿帕提嘉和維克托·M·卡斯塔諾共同獲得。他們通過實驗將龍舌蘭酒轉變為鉆石薄膜。