1979 Nobel Prize
11
laureates
6
fields
1979
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics
for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, in particular the prediction of the weak neutral current
United States of America
Pakistan
United States of America
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for the development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds into important reagents in organic synthesis (development of new methods in organic synthesis)
United States of America
West Germany
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
for the development of computer assisted tomography (CT)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United States of America
Nobel Prize in Literature
for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness
Greece
Nobel Peace Prize
India
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
for their pioneering research into economic development with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries
United States of America
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Saint Lucia