Nobel Prize Winners of 1986

Dudley R. Herschbach - Male - 54 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Yuan T. Lee - Male - 49 years

Birth country: Taiwan

Motivation: for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes

Affiliation: University of California - USA

John C. Polanyi - Male - 57 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes

Affiliation: University of Toronto - Canada

James M. Buchanan Jr. - Male - 67 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making

Affiliation: Center for Study of Public Choice - USA

Wole Soyinka - Male - 52 years

Birth country: Nigeria

Motivation: who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence

Stanley Cohen - Male - 63 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of growth factors

Affiliation: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine - USA

Rita Levi-Montalcini - Female - 77 years

Birth country: Italy

Motivation: for their discoveries of growth factors

Affiliation: Institute of Cell Biology of the C.N.R. - Italy

Elie Wiesel - Male - 58 years

Birth country: Romania

Motivation: for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity

Ernst Ruska - Male - 79 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope

Affiliation: Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Germany

Gerd Binnig - Male - 39 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope

Affiliation: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory - Switzerland

Heinrich Rohrer - Male - 53 years

Birth country: Switzerland

Motivation: for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope

Affiliation: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory - Switzerland