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1981 Nobel Prize

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Nobel Prize in Literature

Elias Canetti

(for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power.)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

David H. Hubel, Torsten Wiesel

(for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system.)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Nicolaas Bloembergen

(for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy.)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

James Tobin

(for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices.)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann

(for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions.)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Roger Wolcott Sperry

(for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres.)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Kai Siegbahn

(for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy.)