1979 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Herbert C. Brown

for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis

Georg Wittig

for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis

Economic Sciences

Theodore W. Schultz

for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries

Sir Arthur Lewis

for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries

Literature

Odysseus Elytis

for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness

Peace

Mother Teresa

for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity

Physics

Sheldon Lee Glashow

for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current

Abdus Salam

for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current

Steven Weinberg

for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current

Physiology or Medicine

Allan M. Cormack

for the development of computer assisted tomography

Godfrey N. Hounsfield

for the development of computer assisted tomography