Editing 2002 in science (section)

==Awards==
* [[Fields Medal|Fields Prize in Mathematics]]: [[Laurent Lafforgue]] and [[Vladimir Voevodsky]]
* [[Nobel Prize]]s
** [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]]
*** [[John B. Fenn]] ([[Virginia Commonwealth University]], Richmond, USA) and [[Koichi Tanaka]] ([[Shimadzu Corp.]], Kyoto, Japan) "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
*** [[Kurt Wüthrich]] ([[ETH Zurich|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich]], Switzerland and [[The Scripps Research Institute]], La Jolla, USA) "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
** [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]]
*** [[Raymond Davis Jr.]] (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) and [[Masatoshi Koshiba]] ([[International Center for Elementary Particle Physics]], University of Tokyo, Japan) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
*** [[Riccardo Giacconi]] (Associated Universities Inc., Washington, D.C., USA) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
** [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]]
*** [[Sydney Brenner]], [[H. Robert Horvitz]] and [[John E. Sulston]] "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
* [[Turing Award]]: [[Ron Rivest]], [[Adi Shamir]], and [[Leonard Adleman]]
* [[Wollaston Medal]] for Geology: [[Rudolf Trumpy]]