Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1970
1. Nobel Laureates - Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven
Field - Physics
Contribution - Fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics.
2. Nobel Laureates - Louis Eugene Felix Neel
Field - Physics
Contribution - Fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and
ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics.
3. Nobel Laureates - Luis F. Leloir
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates.
4. Nobel Laureates - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and
the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation.
5. Nobel Laureates - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Field - Literature
Contribution - Ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.
6. Nobel Laureates - Norman E. Borlaug
Field - Peace
7. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Paul A. Samuelson
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory
and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science.