Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
KLUG, Sir AARON, Great Britain, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, b. 1926 (in Lithuania): "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nuclei acid-protei
Literature
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL, Colombia, b. 1928: "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts"
Peace
The prize was awarded jointly to: MYRDAL, ALVA, Sweden, b. 1902, d. 1986: former Cabinet Minister, diplomat, delegate to United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, writer. GARCêA ROBLES, ALFONSO, Mexico, b. 1911: diplomat, delegate to
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: BERGSTRÉM, SUNE K., Sweden, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, b. 1916; SAMUELSSON, BENGT I., Sweden, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, b. 1934; and VANE, Sir JOHN R., Great Britain, The Wellcome Resea
Physics
WILSON, KENNETH G., U.S.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, b. 1936: "for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions"