Nobel Prize Winners of 1980

Paul Berg - Male - 54 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA

Walter Gilbert - Male - 48 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids

Affiliation: Harvard University, Biological Laboratories - USA

Frederick Sanger - Male - 62 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids

Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - United Kingdom

Lawrence R. Klein - Male - 60 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies

Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania - USA

Czesław Miłosz - Male - 69 years

Birth country: Lithuania

Motivation: who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts

Baruj Benacerraf - Male - 59 years

Birth country: Venezuela

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions

Affiliation: Harvard Medical School - USA

Jean Dausset - Male - 63 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions

Affiliation: Université de Paris, Laboratoire Immuno-Hématologie - France

George D. Snell - Male - 76 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions

Affiliation: Jackson Laboratory - USA

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - Male - 48 years

Birth country: Argentina

Motivation: for being a source of inspiration to repressed people, especially in Latin America

James Watson Cronin - Male - 49 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

Val Logsdon Fitch - Male - 57 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA