Nobel Prize Winners of 1975

In 1975, 12 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 6 categories: Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Literature, Medicine, Peace, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.

1975 - Chemistry

John Warcup Cornforth - Male - 58 years

Birth country: Australia

Motivation: for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions

Affiliation: University of Sussex - United Kingdom

Vladimir Prelog - Male - 69 years

Birth country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Motivation: for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions

Affiliation: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - Switzerland

1975 - Economic Sciences

Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich - Male - 63 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources

Affiliation: Academy of Sciences - Russia

Tjalling C. Koopmans - Male - 65 years

Birth country: the Netherlands

Motivation: for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources

Affiliation: Yale University - USA

1975 - Literature

Eugenio Montale - Male - 79 years

Birth country: Italy

Motivation: for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions

1975 - Medicine

David Baltimore - Male - 37 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Renato Dulbecco - Male - 61 years

Birth country: Italy

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell

Affiliation: Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory - United Kingdom

Howard Martin Temin - Male - 40 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell

Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - USA

1975 - Peace

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations

1975 - Physics

Aage Niels Bohr - Male - 53 years

Birth country: Denmark

Motivation: for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection

Affiliation: Niels Bohr Institute - Denmark

Ben Roy Mottelson - Male - 49 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection

Affiliation: Nordita - Denmark

Leo James Rainwater - Male - 57 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection

Affiliation: Columbia University - USA

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