Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1980
1. Nobel Laureates - James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch
Field - Physics
Contribution - Discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons
2. Nobel Laureates - Paul Berg
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA
3. Nobel Laureates - Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.
4. Nobel Laureates - Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George D. Snell
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions.
5. Nobel Laureates - Czeslaw Milosz
Field - Literature
Contribution - uncompromising clear-sightedness voices mans exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts
6. Nobel Laureates - Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Field - Peace
7. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Lawrence R. Klein
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies.