1983 Nobel Prize

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laureates

6

fields

1983

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1983 Nobel Prize in Physics (1)

for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars (Philos. Mag. 11 (1931) 592; Astrophys. J. 74 (1931) 81; Astrophys. J. 96 (1942) 161)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

1983 Nobel Prize in Physics (2)

for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe (Rev. Mod. Phys. 29 (1957) 547-650)

William Alfred Fowler
William Alfred Fowler

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes

Henry Taube
Henry Taube

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for the discovery of mobile genetic elements

Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1983 Nobel Prize in Literature

for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today

William Golding
William Golding

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

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

1983 Nobel Peace Prize

for founding the trade union "Solidarity" and initiating the movement for democratization

Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa

PolandPoland

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium

Gérard Debreu
Gérard Debreu

FranceFrance