Nobel Prize Winners of 1977

In 1977, 11 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.

1977 - Chemistry

Ilya Romanovich Prigogine - Male - 60 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures

Affiliation: Université Libre de Bruxelles - Belgium; University of Texas - USA

1977 - Economic Sciences

Bertil Ohlin - Male - 78 years

Birth country: Sweden

Motivation: for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements

Affiliation: Stockholm School of Economics - Sweden

James E. Meade - Male - 70 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements

Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom

1977 - Literature

Vicente Aleixandre - Male - 79 years

Birth country: Spain

Motivation: for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars

1977 - Medicine

Roger Guillemin - Male - 53 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain

Affiliation: The Salk Institute - USA

Andrew V. Schally - Male - 50 years

Birth country: Lithuania

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain

Affiliation: Veterans Administration Hospital - USA

Rosalyn Yalow - Female - 56 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones

Affiliation: Veterans Administration Hospital - USA

1977 - Peace

Organization: Amnesty International

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Motivation: for worldwide respect for human rights

1977 - Physics

Philip Warren Anderson - Male - 53 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems

Affiliation: Bell Telephone Laboratories - USA

Sir Nevill Francis Mott - Male - 72 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems

Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck - Male - 78 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

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