Nobel Prize Winners of 1996

In 1996, 13 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.

1996 - Chemistry

Robert F. Curl Jr. - Male - 63 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery of fullerenes

Affiliation: Rice University - USA

Sir Harold W. Kroto - Male - 57 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discovery of fullerenes

Affiliation: University of Sussex - United Kingdom

Richard E. Smalley - Male - 53 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery of fullerenes

Affiliation: Rice University - USA

1996 - Economic Sciences

James A. Mirrlees - Male - 60 years

Birth country: Scotland

Motivation: for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information

Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom

William Vickrey - Male - 82 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information

Affiliation: Columbia University - USA

1996 - Literature

Wisława Szymborska - Female - 73 years

Birth country: Poland

Motivation: for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality

1996 - Medicine

Peter C. Doherty - Male - 55 years

Birth country: Australia

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence

Affiliation: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - USA

Rolf M. Zinkernagel - Male - 52 years

Birth country: Switzerland

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence

Affiliation: University of Zurich, Institute of Experimental Immunology - Switzerland

1996 - Peace

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo - Male - 48 years

Birth country: East Timor

Motivation: for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor

José Ramos-Horta - Male - 46 years

Birth country: East Timor

Motivation: for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor

1996 - Physics

David M. Lee - Male - 65 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3

Affiliation: Cornell University - USA

Douglas D. Osheroff - Male - 51 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA

Robert C. Richardson - Male - 59 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3

Affiliation: Cornell University - USA

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