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1978 Nobel Prize

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Nobel Prize in Physics

Robert Woodrow Wilson, Arno Allan Penzias

(for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation)
Nobel Prize in Literature

Isaac Bashevis Singer

(for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Pyotr Kapitsa

(for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Herbert Simon

(for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith

(for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Peter D. Mitchell

(for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory)