11.   Rarely does a Nobel science prize go for research with such immediate, political consequences.

12.   Rodhe agreed that in the past, classical science prizes rarely had immediate political consequences.

13.   The science prize went to Andrew John Wiles of Princeton University in New Jersey for his work in the field of Algebra.

14.   The science prize went to two American scientists at the University of Colorado, Carl E. Wieman and Eric A. Cornell, for their work in physics.

15.   The King Faisal science prize this year went to researchers Gunter Blobel of Germany, Hugh Pelham of Britain and James Rothman of the United States.