Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1973
1. Nobel Laureates - Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever
Field - Physics
Contribution - Experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.
2. Nobel Laureates - Brian David Josephson
Field - Physics
Contribution - Theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier,
in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects.
3. Nobel Laureates - Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
4. Nobel Laureates - Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns.
5. Nobel Laureates - Patrick White
Field - Literature
Contribution - Epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.
6. Nobel Laureates - Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
Field - Peace
7. Nobel Laureates - Wassily Leontief
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems.