The 2003 Nobel winners for Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics were officially handed their awards in Stockholm by King Carl XVI Gustaf. Robert F. Engle and Clive W.J. Granger won the Economics Prize, the Chemistry prize went to Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon and the Physics prize was awarded to trio consisting of Alexei A. Abrikosov, Anthony J. Leggett and Vitaly L. Ginzburg. Paul C. Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield jointly won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. South African writer J.M. Coetzee was honoured with the Nobel Literature prize. The Stockholm ceremony followed the award of the most prestigious of all the prizes, the Peace Prize, to Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi in Oslo. She received the Nobel Peace Prize for her democracy-building efforts and her work to improve human rights in Iran, making her the first Muslim woman to receive the award.

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