Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1970: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Luis F. Leloir

    Chemistry

    for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates

  2. Medicine

    Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation

  3. Physics

    Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén

    Physics

    for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics

  4. Physics

    Louis Eugène Félix Néel

    Physics

    for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics