Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize 1991: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
Richard R. Ernst
for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
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Medicine
Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells
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Physics
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers