Nobel Prize Winners of 1976

William N. Lipscomb - Male - 56 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Milton Friedman - Male - 64 years

Birth country: USA

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

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

Saul Bellow - Male - 61 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work

Baruch S. Blumberg - Male - 51 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases

Affiliation: The Institute for Cancer Research - USA

D. Carleton Gajdusek - Male - 53 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases

Affiliation: National Institutes of Health - USA

Elizabeth Williams - Female - 34 years

Birth country: Northern Ireland

Motivation: for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland

Mairead Corrigan - Female - 33 years

Birth country: Northern Ireland

Motivation: for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland

Burton Richter - Male - 45 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind

Affiliation: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - USA

Samuel Chao Chung Ting - Male - 40 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA