Awards & Winners

1991 Nobel Prize

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Nobel Peace Prize

Aung San Suu Kyi

(for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights)

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Nobel Prize in Literature

Nadine Gordimer

(who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

(for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Ronald Coase

(for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann

(for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Richard R. Ernst

(for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy)