Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1977
1. Nobel Laureates - Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck
Field - Physics
Contribution - Fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
2. Nobel Laureates - Ilya Prigogine
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.
3. Nobel Laureates - Roger Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain.
4. Nobel Laureates - Rosalyn Yalow
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - For the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones.
5. Nobel Laureates - Vicente Aleixandre
Field - Literature
Contribution - creative poetic writing which illuminates mans condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars.
6. Nobel Laureates - Amnesty International
Field - Peace
7. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Bertil Ohlin and James E. Meade
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements.