Nobel Prize Winners of 1987

Donald J. Cram - Male - 68 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity

Affiliation: University of California - USA

Jean-Marie Lehn - Male - 48 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity

Affiliation: Université Louis Pasteur - France; Collège de France - France

Charles J. Pedersen - Male - 83 years

Birth country: South Korea

Motivation: for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity

Affiliation: Du Pont - USA

Robert M. Solow - Male - 63 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his contributions to the theory of economic growth

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Joseph Brodsky - Male - 47 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity

Susumu Tonegawa - Male - 48 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Oscar Arias Sánchez - Male - 47 years

Birth country: Costa Rica

Motivation: for his work for lasting peace in Central America

J. Georg Bednorz - Male - 37 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials

Affiliation: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory - Switzerland

K. Alexander Müller - Male - 60 years

Birth country: Switzerland

Motivation: for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials

Affiliation: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory - Switzerland