1993 Nobel Prize

11

laureates

6

fields

1993

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1993 Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation (Astrophys. J. Lett. 195 (1975) L51-L53; Astrophys. J. Lett. 206 (1976) L53-L58; Astrophys. J. 253 (1982) 908-920; Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 341 (1992) 117-134; Phys. Rev. D 45 (1992) 1840-1868)

Russell A. Hulse
Russell A. Hulse

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1)

for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, a major contribution to DNA-based chemistry

Kary Banks Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2)

for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies

Michael Smith
Michael Smith

CanadaCanada

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for the discovery of split genes

Richard J. Roberts
Richard J. Roberts

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

Phillip Allen Sharp
Phillip Allen Sharp

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1993 Nobel Prize in Literature

who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality

Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

1993 Nobel Peace Prize

for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela

South AfricaSouth Africa

F. W. de Klerk
F. W. de Klerk

South AfricaSouth Africa

Economic Sciences

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods to explain economic and institutional change

Robert Fogel
Robert Fogel

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Douglass North
Douglass North

United States of AmericaUnited States of America