The Nobel Prize in Physics
Leo Esaki (Japan / USA) and Ivar Giaever (Norway / USA) for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.
Brian David Josephson (UK) for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects.
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| Leo Esaki |
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| Ivar Giaever |
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| Brian David Josephson |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Ernst Otto Fischer (West Germany) and Geoffrey Wilkinson (UK)
For their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
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| Ernst Otto Fischer |
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| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Karl von Frisch (Austria / West Germany), Konrad Lorenz (Austria) and Nikolaas Tinbergen (Netherlands / UK)
For their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns.
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| Karl von Frisch |
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| Konrad Lorenz |
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| Nikolaas Tinbergen |
The Nobel Prize in Literature: Patrick White (Australia)
For an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.
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| Patrick White |
The Nobel Peace Prize: Henry Kissinger (USA) and Le Duc Tho (Vietnam)
For jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973.
Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel Peace Prize.
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| Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger |
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: Wassily Leontief (USSR / USA)
For the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems.
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| Wassily Leontief |











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