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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
06
Ceremony
71st Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

1 Laureate

Dennis Gabor

United Kingdom

for his invention and development of the holographic method

Chemistry

1 Laureate

Gerhard Herzberg

Canada

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

Sweden

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

Economic Sciences

Simon Kuznets

Russia

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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