Nobel Peace PrizeÓscar Arias(for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year) |
Nobel Prize in LiteratureJoseph Brodsky(for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity) |
Nobel Prize in PhysicsJohannes Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller(for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesRobert Solow(for his contributions to the theory of economic growth) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineSusumu Tonegawa(for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity) |
Nobel Prize in ChemistryDonald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen(for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity) |