Nobel Foundation

Peter D. Mitchell from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of chemiosmotic theory and its contribution to understandings of biological energy transfer.

Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ministering to the poor and homeless of India. Early in the following century the process was set in motion for making her a saint.

Frederick Sanger from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Sanger shared one-half of the prize with Walter Gilbert , an American who, like Sanger, researched the base sequences of nucleic acid. The...

Elias Canetti , born in Bulgaria and resident in Great Britain, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power.

Alva Myrdal was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Alfonso García Robles . The two were recognized for their work, some of which was done with the United Nations , on nuclear disarmament.

William Golding from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of mobile genetic elements, a scientific advancement that was pivotal to later research in DNA.

César Milstein from Great Britain and Argentina was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with two colleagues from other countries) for immunology research; another Briton, Sir Richard Stone , received the prize...

Rita Levi-Montalcini was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly with Stanley Cohen , for the discovery of epidermal and nerve cell growth factors (the regulating mechanisms behind cells' growth and differentiation); this...

Sir James W. Black from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Black's co-honourees were Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings , and all three were awarded the prize for...

Aung San Sui Kii was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her resistance to totalitarian government in Burma (which since 18 June 1989 has been styled the Union of Myanmar).

Richard J. Roberts from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with American Phillip A. Sharp . The two were recognized for discovering split genes.

Joseph Rotblat from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in nuclear disarmament.

Wislawa Szymborska of Poland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.

Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines , of which she was a founding coordinator.