Nobel Prize Winners of 1972

Christian B. Anfinsen - Male - 56 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation

Affiliation: National Institutes of Health - USA

Stanford Moore - Male - 59 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule

Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA

William H. Stein - Male - 61 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule

Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA

John R. Hicks - Male - 68 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory

Affiliation: All Souls College - United Kingdom

Kenneth J. Arrow - Male - 51 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Heinrich Böll - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature

Gerald M. Edelman - Male - 43 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies

Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA

Rodney R. Porter - Male - 55 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies

Affiliation: University of Oxford - United Kingdom

John Bardeen - Male - 64 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory

Affiliation: University of Illinois - USA

Leon Neil Cooper - Male - 42 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory

Affiliation: Brown University - USA

John Robert Schrieffer - Male - 41 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory

Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania - USA