John Rawls was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "for his book "A Theory of Justice", which has constituted a renewal of normative ethics and political philosophy and has in an essential way contributed to the methodology for normative ethics."
Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What? (1999)
Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web (1999)
Iris Murdoch (8 February)
Clifton Fadiman (20 June)
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