1989 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Sidney Altman

for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA

Thomas R. Cech

for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA

Economic Sciences

Trygve Haavelmo

for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures

Literature

Camilo José Cela

for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability

Peace

The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people

Physics

Norman F. Ramsey

for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks

Hans G. Dehmelt

for the development of the ion trap technique

Wolfgang Paul

for the development of the ion trap technique

Physiology or Medicine

J. Michael Bishop

for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes

Harold E. Varmus

for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes