1983 - Chemistry
Henry Taube - Male - 67 years
Birth country: Canada
Motivation: for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes
Affiliation: Stanford University - USA
Nobel Prize Winners of 1983
In 1983, 7 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.
1983 - Economic Sciences
Gerard Debreu - Male - 62 years
Birth country: France
Motivation: for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium
Affiliation: University of California - USA
1983 - Literature
William Golding - Male - 72 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today
1983 - Medicine
Barbara McClintock - Female - 81 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for her discovery of mobile genetic elements
Affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - USA
1983 - Peace
Lech Wałęsa - Male - 40 years
Birth country: Poland
Motivation: for non-violent struggle for free trade unions and human rights in Poland
1983 - Physics
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Male - 73 years
Birth country: Pakistan
Motivation: for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars
Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA
William Alfred Fowler - Male - 72 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA
