Nobel Prize Winners of 1989

In 1989, 10 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.

1989 - Chemistry

Sidney Altman - Male - 50 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA

Affiliation: Yale University - USA

Thomas R. Cech - Male - 41 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA

Affiliation: University of Colorado - USA

1989 - Economic Sciences

Trygve Haavelmo - Male - 77 years

Birth country: Norway

Motivation: for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures

Affiliation: University of Oslo - Norway

1989 - Literature

Camilo José Cela - Male - 73 years

Birth country: Spain

Motivation: for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability

1989 - Medicine

J. Michael Bishop - Male - 53 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes

Affiliation: University of California School of Medicine - USA

Harold E. Varmus - Male - 49 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes

Affiliation: University of California School of Medicine - USA

1989 - Peace

The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) - Male - 54 years

Birth country: China

Motivation: for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people

1989 - Physics

Norman F. Ramsey - Male - 74 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Hans G. Dehmelt - Male - 67 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for the development of the ion trap technique

Affiliation: University of Washington - USA

Wolfgang Paul - Male - 76 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for the development of the ion trap technique

Affiliation: University of Bonn - Germany

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