The 1996 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.
Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.
Prizes
Physics +Awardee(s)David Lee (b. 1931) American"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"Douglas D. Osheroff (b. 1945)Robert Coleman Richardson (1937–2013)
Chemistry Awardee(s)Robert F. Curl Jr. (1933–2022) American"for their discovery of fullerenes"Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939–2016) BritishRichard E. Smalley (1943–2005) American
Physiology or Medicine Awardee(s)Peter C. Doherty (b. 1940)"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"Rolf M. Zinkernagel (b. 1944)
Literature
Awardee(s)Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012)"for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"
Peace Awardee(s)Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (born 1948)"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."José Ramos-Horta (born 1949)
Economic Sciences Awardee(s)James Mirrlees (1936–2018)"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"William Vickrey (1914–1996)
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