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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|Georges Charpak

(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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|Rudolph A. Marcus

(b. 1923)

|{{flagdeco|Canada}} Canadian

{{flagdeco|United States}} American

|"for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"

|{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992 |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1992/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718011422/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1992/index.html |archive-date=18 July 2011 |access-date=6 October 2008 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

= Physiology or Medicine =

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|Edmond H. Fischer

(1920–2021)

|{{flag|Switzerland}}

{{flag|United States}}

| rowspan="2" |"for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism"

| rowspan="2" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992 |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1992/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010215641/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1992/index.html |archive-date=10 October 2013 |access-date=28 July 2007 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

|Edwin G. Krebs

(1918–2009)

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= Literature =

{{Main page|1992 Nobel Prize in Literature}}

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|Derek Walcott

(1930–2017)

|{{flag|Saint Lucia|1979}}

|"for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"

|{{cite web |title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212843/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/index.html |archive-date=2008-10-17 |access-date=2008-10-17 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

= Peace =

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|Rigoberta Menchú

(born 1959)

|{{Flag|Guatemala}}

|"for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples."

|{{cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1992 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1992/summary |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019182136/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1992/index.html |archive-date=2008-10-19 |access-date=2022-03-02 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

= Economic Sciences =

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|Gary Becker

(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"

|{{cite web |title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992 |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1992/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028215351/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1992/ |archive-date=2008-10-28 |access-date=2008-10-14 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}

== References ==

{{1992 Nobel Prize winners}}

Category:Nobel Prize by year

Category:1992 awards