1996

Nobel Prize Winners

1997

1995 1997

13 laureates honored across 6 categories in the 96th Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates

Physics

3 LaureatesAll Physics

David Lee

United States

“for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”

Douglas D. Osheroff

United States

“for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”

Robert C. Richardson

United States

“for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”

Chemistry

3 LaureatesAll Chemistry

Robert F. Curl Jr.

United States

“for their discovery of fullerenes”

Sir Harold Kroto

United Kingdom

“for their discovery of fullerenes”

Richard E. Smalley

United States

“for their discovery of fullerenes”

Physiology or Medicine

2 LaureatesAll Physiology or Medicine

Peter C. Doherty

Australia

“for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”

Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Switzerland

“for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”

Literature

1 LaureateAll Literature

Wisława Szymborska

Poland

“for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”

Peace

2 LaureatesAll Peace

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

“for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor”

José Ramos-Horta

“for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor”

Economic Sciences

2 LaureatesAll Economic Sciences

James A. Mirrlees

United Kingdom

“for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”

William Vickrey

United States

“for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”

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