Nobel Prize Winners of 1973

Ernst Otto Fischer - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds

Affiliation: Technical University - Germany

Geoffrey Wilkinson - Male - 52 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds

Affiliation: Imperial College - United Kingdom

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief - Male - 67 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Patrick White - Male - 61 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature

Karl von Frisch - Male - 86 years

Birth country: Austria

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns

Affiliation: Zoologisches Institut der Universität München - Germany

Konrad Lorenz - Male - 69 years

Birth country: Austria

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns

Affiliation: Konrad-Lorenz-Institut der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissen­schaften, Forschungsstelle für Ethologie - Austria; Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie - Germany

Nikolaas Tinbergen - Male - 66 years

Birth country: the Netherlands

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns

Affiliation: University of Oxford - United Kingdom

Henry Alfred Kissinger - Male - 50 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973

Le Duc Tho - Male - 62 years

Birth country: Vietnam

Motivation: for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973

Leo Esaki - Male - 48 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively

Affiliation: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center - USA

Ivar Giaever - Male - 44 years

Birth country: Norway

Motivation: for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively

Affiliation: General Electric Company - USA

Brian David Josephson - Male - 33 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: 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

Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom