1971 Nobel Prize

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laureates

6

fields

1971

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1971 Nobel Prize in Physics

for his invention and development of the holographic method (Nature 161 (1948) 777–779, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 197 (1949) 454, Proc. Phys. Soc. B 64 (1951) 449)

Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for his contributions to the knowledge of the electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals

Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg

CanadaCanada, West GermanyWest Germany

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1971 Nobel Prize in Literature

for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams

Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda

ChileChile

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

1971 Nobel Peace Prize

for his Ostpolitik aimed at normalizing relations with East Germany and other Eastern European countries, paving the way for a meaningful dialogue between East and West

Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt

West GermanyWest Germany

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development

Simon Kuznets
Simon Kuznets

United States of AmericaUnited States of America