1971 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Gerhard Herzberg

for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals

Economic Sciences

Simon Kuznets

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

Literature

Pablo Neruda

for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams

Peace

Willy Brandt

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

Physics

Dennis Gabor

for his invention and development of the holographic method

Physiology or Medicine

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.

for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones