Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
The prize was divided equally between: BROWN, HERBERT C., U.S.A., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, b. 1912 (in London, Great Britain); and WITTIG, GEORG, Federal Republic of Germany, University of Heidelberg, b. 1897, d. 1987: "for th
Literature
ELYTIS ODYSSEUS (pen-name of ALEPOUDHELIS, ODYSSEUS), Greece, b. 1911, d. 1996; "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for f
Peace
MOTHER TERESA, India, b. 1910, d. 1997: Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: CORMACK, ALLAN M., U.S.A., Tufts University, Medford, MA, b. 1924 (in Johannesburg, South Africa), d. 1998; and HOUNSFIELD, Sir GODFREY N., Great Britain, Central Research Laboratories, EMI, London, b. 1919
Physics
, Trieste, and Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Great Britain, b. 1926, d. 1996; and WEINBERG, STEVEN, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1933: "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and ele