In 1978, 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.
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory
Affiliation: Glynn Research Laboratories - United Kingdom
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University - USA
Birth country: Poland
Motivation: for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life
Birth country: Switzerland
Motivation: for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
Affiliation: Biozentrum der Universität - Switzerland
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - USA
Birth country: Egypt
Motivation: for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978
Birth country: Belarus
Motivation: for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978
Birth country: Russia
Motivation: for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics
Affiliation: Academy of Sciences - Russia
Birth country: Germany
Motivation: for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
Affiliation: Bell Laboratories - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
Affiliation: Bell Laboratories - USA
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