Nobel Prize Winners of 1968

In 1968, 7 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 5 categories: Chemistry, Literature, Medicine, Peace, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.

1968 - Chemistry

Lars Onsager - Male - 64 years

Birth country: Norway

Motivation: for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes

Affiliation: Yale University - USA

1968 - Literature

Yasunari Kawabata - Male - 69 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind

1968 - Medicine

Robert W. Holley - Male - 46 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

Affiliation: Cornell University - USA

Har Gobind Khorana - Male - 46 years

Birth country: India

Motivation: for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - USA

Marshall W. Nirenberg - Male - 41 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

Affiliation: National Institutes of Health - USA

1968 - Peace

René Cassin - Male - 81 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for his struggle to ensure the rights of man as stipulated in the UN Declaration

1968 - Physics

Luis Walter Alvarez - Male - 57 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis

Affiliation: University of California - USA

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