1976 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

William N. Lipscomb

for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding

Economic Sciences

Milton Friedman

for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy

Literature

Saul Bellow

for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work

Peace

Elizabeth Williams

for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland

Mairead Corrigan

for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland

Physics

Burton Richter

for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind

Samuel Chao Chung Ting

for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind

Physiology or Medicine

Baruch S. Blumberg

for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases

D. Carleton Gajdusek

for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases