Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1988: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel

    Chemistry

    for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre

  2. Medicine

    James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings

    Biology

    for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment

  3. Physics

    Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger

    Physics

    for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino