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1982

Nobel Prize Winners

9 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 82nd Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
9
Categories
06
Countries
05
Ceremony
82nd Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

1 Laureate

Kenneth G. Wilson

United States

for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions

Chemistry

1 Laureate

Aaron Klug

United Kingdom

for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes

Physiology or Medicine

Literature

1 Laureate

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombia

for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts

Peace

2 Laureates

Economic Sciences

George J. Stigler

United States

for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation

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