1986

Nobel Prize Winners

1987

1985 1987

11 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 86th Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates

Physics

3 LaureatesAll Physics

Heinrich Rohrer

Switzerland

“for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope”

Ernst Ruska

Germany

“for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope”

Gerd Binnig

Germany

“for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope”

Chemistry

3 LaureatesAll Chemistry

Dudley R. Herschbach

United States

“for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”

Yuan T. Lee

Taiwan

“for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”

John C. Polanyi

Canada

“for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”

Physiology or Medicine

2 LaureatesAll Physiology or Medicine

Stanley Cohen

United States

“for their discoveries of growth factors”

Rita Levi-Montalcini

United States

“for their discoveries of growth factors”

Literature

1 LaureateAll Literature

Wole Soyinka

Nigeria

“who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”

Peace

1 LaureateAll Peace

Elie Wiesel

Hungary

“for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity”

Economic Sciences

1 LaureateAll Economic Sciences

James M. Buchanan Jr.

United States

“for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making”

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