1992 Nobel Prizes
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The 1992 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.{{Cite web |title=All Nobel Prizes |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes/1999-1990/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Prizes
= Physics =
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(1924–2010) |{{flagdeco|France|1974}} French |"for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1992/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022071715/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1992/index.html |archive-date=22 October 2008 |access-date=9 October 2008 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}} |
= Chemistry =
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(b. 1923) |{{flagdeco|Canada}} Canadian {{flagdeco|United States}} American |"for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems" |
= Physiology or Medicine =
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(1920–2021) |{{flag|Switzerland}} {{flag|United States}} | rowspan="2" |"for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism" |
|Edwin G. Krebs
(1918–2009) |{{flag|United States}} |
= Literature =
{{Main page|1992 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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(1930–2017) |{{flag|Saint Lucia|1979}} |"for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment" |
= Peace =
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(born 1959) |{{Flag|Guatemala}} |"for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples." |
= Economic Sciences =
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(1930–2014) |{{flag|United States}} |"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour" |
== References ==
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