Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1986: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi

    Chemistry

    for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes

  2. Medicine

    Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini

    Biology

    for their discoveries of growth factors

  3. Physics

    Ernst Ruska

    Physics

    for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope

  4. Physics

    Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer

    Physics

    for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope