Thursday, 5 February 2026

1976, Nobel Prizes (Oslo, Norway)

The Nobel Prize in Physics: Burton Richter (USA) and Samuel C.C. Ting (USA)

For their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.

Burton Richter
Samuel C.C. Ting

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: William Lipscomb (USA)

For his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding.

William Lipscomb

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Baruch S. Blumberg (USA) and D. Carleton Gajdusek (USA)

For their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.

Baruch S. Blumberg
D. Carleton Gajdusek

The Nobel Prize in Literature: Saul Bellow (Canada / USA)

For the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.

Saul Bellow

The Nobel Peace Prize: Betty Williams (UK) and Mairead Corrigan (UK)

For the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland.
They received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977. 

Betty Williams
Mairead Corrigan

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: Milton Friedman (USA)

For his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.

Milton Friedman

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