Nobel Prize Winners of 1979

Herbert C. Brown - Male - 67 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis

Affiliation: Purdue University - USA

Georg Wittig - Male - 82 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis

Affiliation: University of Heidelberg - Germany

Theodore W. Schultz - Male - 77 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

Sir Arthur Lewis - Male - 64 years

Birth country: Saint Lucia

Motivation: for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA

Odysseus Elytis - Male - 67 years

Birth country: Greece

Motivation: for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness

Allan M. Cormack - Male - 55 years

Birth country: South Africa

Motivation: for the development of computer assisted tomography

Affiliation: Tufts University - USA

Godfrey N. Hounsfield - Male - 60 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for the development of computer assisted tomography

Affiliation: Central Research Laboratories, EMI - United Kingdom

Mother Teresa - Female - 69 years

Birth country: North Macedonia

Motivation: for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity

Sheldon Lee Glashow - Male - 46 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current

Affiliation: Harvard University, Lyman Laboratory - USA

Abdus Salam - Male - 53 years

Birth country: Pakistan

Motivation: for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current

Affiliation: International Centre for Theoretical Physics - Italy; Imperial College - United Kingdom

Steven Weinberg - Male - 46 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA