1984 - Chemistry
Robert Bruce Merrifield - Male - 63 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix
Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA
Nobel Prize Winners of 1984
In 1984, 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.
1984 - Economic Sciences
Richard Stone - Male - 71 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis
Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom
1984 - Literature
Jaroslav Seifert - Male - 83 years
Birth country: Czech Republic
Motivation: for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man
1984 - Medicine
Niels K. Jerne - Male - 72 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies
Affiliation: Basel Institute for Immunology - Switzerland
Georges J.F. Köhler - Male - 38 years
Birth country: Germany
Motivation: for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies
Affiliation: Basel Institute for Immunology - Switzerland
César Milstein - Male - 57 years
Birth country: Argentina
Motivation: for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies
Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - United Kingdom
1984 - Peace
Desmond Mpilo Tutu - Male - 52 years
Birth country: South Africa
Motivation: for his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa
1984 - Physics
Carlo Rubbia - Male - 50 years
Birth country: Italy
Motivation: for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction
Affiliation: CERN - Switzerland
Simon van der Meer - Male - 58 years
Birth country: the Netherlands
Motivation: for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction
Affiliation: CERN - Switzerland
