Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1981: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann

    Chemistry

    for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions

  2. Medicine

    Roger Wolcott Sperry

    Biology

    for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres

  3. Medicine

    David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system

  4. Physics

    Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow

    Physics

    for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy

  5. Physics

    Kai M. Siegbahn

    Physics

    for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy