1973 Nobel Prize

12

laureates

6

fields

1973

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1973 Nobel Prize in Physics (1)

for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and in superconductors, respectively (Phys. Rev. Lett. 5 (1960) 147-148; 464-466)

Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki

JapanJapan

Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

1973 Nobel Prize in Physics (2)

for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel junction, in particular those phenomena known as the Josephson effects (Phys. Lett. 1 (1962) 251-253; Adv. Phys. 14 (1965) 419)

Brian David Josephson
Brian David Josephson

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

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of organometallic, so-called sandwich compounds

Ernst Otto Fischer

West GermanyWest Germany

Geoffrey Wilkinson
Geoffrey Wilkinson

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

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns

Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz

AustriaAustria

Karl von Frisch
Karl von Frisch

GermanyGermany

Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas Tinbergen

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

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1973 Nobel Prize in Literature

for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature

Patrick White
Patrick White

AustraliaAustralia

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

1973 Nobel Peace Prize

for having jointly negotiated a ceasefire in Vietnam in 1973

Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Le Duc Tho

North VietnamNorth Vietnam

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

1973 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems

Wassily Leontief
Wassily Leontief

Soviet UnionSoviet Union