Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1990: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Elias James Corey

    Chemistry

    for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis

  2. Medicine

    Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease

  3. Physics

    Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor

    Physics

    for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics