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Nobel Laureates 1993
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Physics:
Russell A. Hulse
and
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"
Chemistry:
"for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry"
Kary B. Mullis
"for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"
Michael Smith
"for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies"
Physiology or Medicine:
Richard J. Roberts
and
Phillip A. Sharp
"for their discoveries of split genes"
Literature:
Toni Morrison
"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
Peace:
Nelson Mandela
and
Frederik Willem de Klerk
"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"
Prize in Economics:
Robert W. Fogel
and
Douglass C. North
"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
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