1996 Nobel Prize Announcements <Prev Next>

The 1996 Nobel Prizes are awarded in the early October, in the following reverse chronological order (time given in Stockholm time):

Date: Friday, October 11, at 11 a.m. Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo And the winners are... Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor." Date: Wednesday, October 9, at 2 p.m. at the earliest Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... Robert F. Curl, Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto, and Richard E. Smalley "for their discovery of fullerenes." Date: Wednesday, October 9, at 11:45 a.m. at the earliest Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, and Robert C. Richardson "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Date: Tuesday, October 8, at 11:30 a.m. at the earliest Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the winners are... James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information." Date: Monday, October 7, at 11:30 a.m. Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the winners are... Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence." Date: Thursday, October 3, at 1 p.m. Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the winner is... Wislawa Szymborska "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality." Date: Thursday, October 3 Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research