by R4R Team

Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1976


1. Nobel Laureates - Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting

Field - Physics

Contribution - Pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.


2. Nobel Laureates - William N. Lipscomb

Field - Chemistry

Contribution - Studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding.


3. Nobel Laureates - Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek

Field - Physiology or Medicine

Contribution - Discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.


4. Nobel Laureates - Saul Bellow

Field - Literature

Contribution - Human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.


5. Nobel Laureates - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan

Field - Peace


6. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Milton Friedman

Field - Economic Sciences

Contribution - Achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory

and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.

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