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1971

Nobel Prize Winners

6 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 71st Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
6
Categories
06
Countries
04
Ceremony
71st Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

1 Laureate

Dennis Gabor

Hungary

“for his invention and development of the holographic method”

Chemistry

1 Laureate

Gerhard Herzberg

Germany

“for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals”

Physiology or Medicine

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.

United States

“for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones”

Literature

1 Laureate

Pablo Neruda

Chile

“for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams”

Peace

1 Laureate

Willy Brandt

Germany

“for paving the way for a meaningful dialogue between East and West”

Economic Sciences

Simon Kuznets

United States

“for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development”

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