Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1978: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Peter D. Mitchell

    Chemistry

    for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory

  2. Medicine

    Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith

    Biology

    for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics

  3. Physics

    Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

    Physics

    for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics

  4. Physics

    Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson

    Physics

    for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation