Nobel Prize 1979: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig

   Chemistry

   for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis

2. Medicine

   Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield

   Biology

   for the development of computer assisted tomography

3. Physics

   Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg

   Physics

   for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current