>Pulitzer Prize Winners
| Fiction | Eudora Welty ... "The Optimist's Daughter" |
| History | Michael Kammen ... "People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization" |
| International Reporting | Max Frankel ... "New York Times" |
| National Reporting | Robert Boyd & Clark Hoyt ... "Knight Newspapers" |
| Public Service | "Washington Post" |
Chemistry
The prize was divided equally between:
FISCHER, ERNST OTTO, Federal Republic of Germany, Technical University of
Munich, Munich, b. 1918; and
WILKINSON, Sir GEOFFREY, Great Britain, Imperial College, London, b. 1921,
d. 1996:
"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the
organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"
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Literature
WHITE, PATRICK, Australia, b. 1912 (in London, Great Britain), d. 1990:
"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new
continent into literature"
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The prize was awarded jointly to:
KISSINGER, HENRY A., USA, b. 1923: Secretary of State, State Department, Washington.
LE DUC THO, North Vietnam, b. 1911: Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. (Declined the prize.)
for jointly negotiating the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.
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The prize was awarded jointly to:
VON FRISCH, KARL, Federal Republic of Germany, Zoologisches Institut der
Universitat Munchen, Munich, b. 1886 (in Vienna, Austria), d. 1982;
LORENZ, KONRAD, Austria, …sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Institut fur vergleichende Verhaltensforschung, Altenberg, b. 1903, d. 1989;
and
TINBERGEN, NIKOLAAS, Great Britain, Department of Zoology, University
Museum, Oxford, b. 1907 (in the Hague, the Netherlands), d. 1988:
"for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual
and social behaviour patterns"
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Physics
The prize was divided, one half being equally shared between:
ESAKI, LEO, Japan, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,
NY, U.S.A., b. 1925; and
GIAEVER, IVAR, U.S.A., General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, b. 1929(in Bergen, Norway),"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"
and the other half to:
JOSEPHSON, BRIAN D., Great Britain, Cambridge University, Cambridge, b.
1940:"for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through
a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as
the Josephson effects"
Grammy Awards| Record of the Year | "Killing Me Softly with His Song" ... Roberta Flack |
| Song of the Year | "Killing Me Softly with His Song" ... Roberta Flack |
| Album of the Year | "Innervisions" ... Stevie Wonder |
| Male Vocalist | Stevie Wonder ... "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" |
| Female Vocalist | Roberta Flack ... "Killing Me Soflty with His Song" |
Academy Awards
| Best Picture | "The Sting" |
| Best Director | George Roy Hill ... "The Sting" |
| Best Actor | Jack Lemmon ... "Save the Tiger" |
| Best Actress | Glenda Jackson ... "A Touch of Class" |
Emmy Awards
| Single Program | "The Autobiography of Jane Pittman" (CBS) |
| Drama Series | "Upstairs, Downstairs" (PBS) |
| Comedy Series | "M*A*S*H" (CBS) |
| Limited Series | "Columbo" (NBC) |
Tony Awards
| Best Play | "That Championship Season" ... Jason Miller |
| Best Musical | "A Little Night Music" |
| Best Actor (in a play) |
Alan Bates ... "Butley" |
| Best Actress (in a play) |
Julie Harris ... "The Last of Mr. Lincoln" |
| Best Actor (in a musical) |
Ben Vereen ... "Pippin" |
| Best Actress (in a musical) |
Glynis Johns ... "A Little Night Music" |
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