Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1986
1. Nobel Laureates - Ernst Ruska
Field - Physics
Contribution - fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope.
2. Nobel Laureates - Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer
Field - Physics
Contribution - design of the scanning tunneling microscope
3. Nobel Laureates - Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi.
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
4. Nobel Laureates - Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries of growth factors.
5. Nobel Laureates - Wole Soyinka
Field - Literature
Contribution - Who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence
6. Nobel Laureates - Elie Wiesel
Field - Peace
7. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - James M. Buchanan Jr.
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making.