Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1983
1. Nobel Laureates - Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
Field - Physics
Contribution - Theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.
2. Nobel Laureates - William Alfred Fowler
Field - Physics
Contribution - Theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe
3. Nobel Laureates - Henry Taube
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.
4. Nobel Laureates - Barbara McClintock
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discovery of mobile genetic elements.
5. Nobel Laureates - William Golding
Field - Literature
Contribution - Novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and
universality of myth,illuminate the human condition in the world of today
6. Nobel Laureates - Lech Walesa
Field - Peace
7. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Gerard Debreu
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory
and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium.