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Physics:
Norman F. Ramsey
"for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks"
Hans G. Dehmelt
and
Wolfgang Paul
"for the development of the ion trap technique"
Chemistry:
Sidney Altman
and
Thomas R. Cech
"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
Physiology or Medicine:
J. Michael Bishop
and
Harold E. Varmus
"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"
Literature:
Camilo José Cela
"for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"
Peace:
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
Prize in Economics:
Trygve Haavelmo
"for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures"
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