Nobel Prize Winners of 1993

In 1993, 11 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.

1993 - Chemistry

Kary B. Mullis - Male - 48 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method

Michael Smith - Male - 61 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies

Affiliation: University of British Columbia - Canada

1993 - Economic Sciences

Robert W. Fogel - Male - 66 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

Douglass C. North - Male - 72 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change

Affiliation: Washington University - USA

1993 - Literature

Toni Morrison - Female - 62 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality

1993 - Medicine

Richard J. Roberts - Male - 50 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discoveries of split genes

Affiliation: New England Biolabs - USA

Phillip A. Sharp - Male - 49 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of split genes

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for Cancer Research - USA

1993 - Peace

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - Male - 75 years

Birth country: South Africa

Motivation: for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa

Frederik Willem de Klerk - Male - 57 years

Birth country: South Africa

Motivation: for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa

1993 - Physics

Russell A. Hulse - Male - 42 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA

Joseph H. Taylor Jr. - Male - 52 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA

World Stay Tracker Ad Banner

Nobel Prize Dashboard