Nobel Prizes and Laureates 1971
1. Nobel Laureates - Dennis Gabor
Field - Physics
Contribution - Invention and development of the holographic method
2. Nobel Laureates - Gerhard Herzberg
Field - Chemistry
Contribution - Contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals.
3. Nobel Laureates - Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
Field - Physiology or Medicine
Contribution - Discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones.
4. Nobel Laureates - Pablo Neruda
Field - Literature
Contribution - Poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continents destiny and dreams.
5. Nobel Laureates - Willy Brandt
Field - Peace
6. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize - Simon Kuznets
Field - Economic Sciences
Contribution - Empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and
deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development.