1973 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Ernst Otto Fischer

for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds

Geoffrey Wilkinson

for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds

Economic Sciences

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief

for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems

Literature

Patrick White

for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature

Peace

Henry Alfred Kissinger

for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973

Le Duc Tho

for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973

Physics

Leo Esaki

for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively

Ivar Giaever

for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively

Brian David Josephson

for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects

Physiology or Medicine

Karl von Frisch

for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns

Konrad Lorenz

for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns

Nikolaas Tinbergen

for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns