Nobel Prize 1968: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Lars Onsager

   Chemistry

   for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes

2. Medicine

   Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg

   Biology

   for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

3. Physics

   Luis Walter Alvarez

   Physics

   for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis