1996 Nobel Prizes

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. ^[1]

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. ^{[2] [3]}

Prizes

Physics

Awardee(s)
	David Lee (b. 1931)	American	"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"	[4]
	Douglas D. Osheroff (b. 1945)
	Robert Coleman Richardson (1937–2013)

Chemistry

Awardee(s)
	Robert F. Curl Jr. (1933–2022)	American	"for their discovery of fullerenes"	[5]
	Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939–2016)	British
	Richard E. Smalley (1943–2005)	American

Physiology or Medicine

Awardee(s)
	Peter C. Doherty (b. 1940)	Australia	"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"	[6]
	Rolf M. Zinkernagel (b. 1944)	Switzerland

Literature

Main article: 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

Awardee(s)
	Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012)	Poland	"for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"	[7]

Peace

Awardee(s)
	Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (born 1948)	East Timor	"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."	[8]
	José Ramos-Horta (born 1949)

Economic Sciences

Awardee(s)
	James Mirrlees (1936–2018)	United Kingdom	"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"	[9]
	William Vickrey (1914–1996)	Canada   United States

References

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