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1983

Nobel Prize Winners

7 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 83rd Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
7
Categories
06
Countries
04
Ceremony
83rd Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

2 Laureates

Chemistry

1 Laureate

Henry Taube

United States

for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes

Physiology or Medicine

Barbara McClintock

United States

for her discovery of mobile genetic elements

Literature

1 Laureate

William Golding

United Kingdom

for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today

Peace

1 Laureate

Lech Wałęsa

Poland

for non-violent struggle for free trade unions and human rights in Poland

Economic Sciences

Gerard Debreu

United States

for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium

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