Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1983: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Henry Taube

    Chemistry

    for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes

  2. Medicine

    Barbara McClintock

    Biology

    for her discovery of mobile genetic elements

  3. Physics

    Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

    Physics

    for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars

  4. Physics

    William Alfred Fowler

    Physics

    for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe