Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1976: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    William N. Lipscomb

    Chemistry

    for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding

  2. Medicine

    Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases

  3. Physics

    Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting

    Physics

    for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind