Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1989
1. Nobel Laureates - Norman F. Ramsey
Field - Physics
Contribution - Invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.
2. Nobel Laureates - Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul
Field - Physics
Contribution - Development of the ion trap technique.
3. Nobel Laureates - Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Discovery of catalytic properties of RNA.
4. Nobel Laureates - J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
5. Nobel Laureates - Camilo Jose Cela
Field - Literature
Contribution - Rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of mans vulnerability.
6. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Trygve Haavelmo
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures.