1996 Nobel Prizes
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The 1996 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}}
Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1996 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1996/ceremony-speech/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Royen |first=Ulrika |date=2024-11-21 |title=The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 1996 - Opening Address |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/1996-opening-address/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Prizes
= Physics =
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(b. 1931) | rowspan="3" |{{flagdeco|United States}} American | rowspan="3" |"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3" | rowspan="3" |{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1996/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212091915/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1996/index.html |archive-date=12 February 2009 |access-date=9 October 2008 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}} |
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(b. 1945) |
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(1937–2013) |
= Chemistry =
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! colspan="5" |Awardee(s) |
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(1933–2022) |{{flagdeco|United States}} American | rowspan="3" |"for their discovery of fullerenes" |
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|Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939–2016) |{{flagdeco|United Kingdom}} British |
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(1943–2005) |{{flagdeco|United States}} American |
= Physiology or Medicine =
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! colspan="5" |Awardee(s) |
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(b. 1940) |{{flag|Australia}} | rowspan="2" |"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence" |
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(b. 1944) |{{flag|Switzerland}} |
= Literature =
{{Main page|1996 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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! colspan="4" |Awardee(s) ! |
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(1923–2012) |{{flag|Poland}} |"for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality" |
= Peace =
= Economic Sciences =
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! colspan="5" |Awardee(s) |
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(1936–2018) |{{flag|United Kingdom}} | rowspan="2" |"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" |
| |William Vickrey
(1914–1996) |{{flag|Canada}} {{flag|United States}} |
== References ==
{{1996 Nobel Prize winners}}