Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1972
1. Nobel Laureates - John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer
Field - Physics
Contribution - Jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory
2. Nobel Laureates - Christian B. Anfinsen
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation.
3. Nobel Laureates - Stanford Moore and William H. Stein
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure
and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule.
4. Nobel Laureates - Gerald M. Edelman and Rodney R. Porter
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies.
5. Nobel Laureates - Heinrich Boll
Field - Literature
Contribution - Writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and
a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature.
7. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - John R. Hicks and Kenneth J. Arrow
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory.