Nobel Prize Winners of 1982

In 1982, 9 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.

1982 - Chemistry

Aaron Klug - Male - 56 years

Birth country: Lithuania

Motivation: for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes

Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - United Kingdom

1982 - Economic Sciences

George J. Stigler - Male - 71 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

1982 - Literature

Gabriel García Márquez - Male - 55 years

Birth country: Colombia

Motivation: for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts

1982 - Medicine

Sune K. Bergström - Male - 66 years

Birth country: Sweden

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances

Affiliation: Karolinska Institutet - Sweden

Bengt I. Samuelsson - Male - 48 years

Birth country: Sweden

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances

Affiliation: Karolinska Institutet - Sweden

John R. Vane - Male - 55 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances

Affiliation: The Wellcome Research Laboratories - United Kingdom

1982 - Peace

Alva Myrdal - Female - 80 years

Birth country: Sweden

Motivation: for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones

Alfonso García Robles - Male - 71 years

Birth country: Mexico

Motivation: for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones

1982 - Physics

Kenneth G. Wilson - Male - 46 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions

Affiliation: Cornell University - USA

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