1986 Nobel Prize

11

laureates

6

fields

1986

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1986 Nobel Prize in Physics (1)

for his fundamental work in electron optics, particularly for the design of the first electron microscope

Ernst Ruska

West GermanyWest Germany

1986 Nobel Prize in Physics (2)

for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope

Gerd Binnig
Gerd Binnig

West GermanyWest Germany

Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer

SwitzerlandSwitzerland

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes

Dudley Robert Herschbach
Dudley Robert Herschbach

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Yuan Tseh Lee
Yuan Tseh Lee

United States of AmericaUnited States of America, Taiwan, Province of ChinaTaiwan, Province of China

John Charles Polanyi
John Charles Polanyi

CanadaCanada, HungaryHungary

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for their discoveries of growth factors

Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini

ItalyItaly, United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Stanley Cohen
Stanley Cohen

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1986 Nobel Prize in Literature

who, in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones, fashions the drama of existence

Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka

NigeriaNigeria

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

1986 Nobel Peace Prize

for serving as Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust

Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making

James M. Buchanan
James M. Buchanan

United States of AmericaUnited States of America