Michael Kammen ... "People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization"
International Reporting
Max Frankel ... "New York Times"
National Reporting
Robert Boyd & Clark Hoyt ... "Knight Newspapers"
Public Service
"Washington Post"
Chemistry
The prize was divided equally between:
FISCHER, ERNST OTTO, Federal Republic of Germany, Technical University of
Munich, Munich, b. 1918; and
WILKINSON, Sir GEOFFREY, Great Britain, Imperial College, London, b. 1921,
d. 1996:
"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the
organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"
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Literature
WHITE, PATRICK, Australia, b. 1912 (in London, Great Britain), d. 1990:
"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new
continent into literature"
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The prize was awarded jointly to:
KISSINGER, HENRY A., USA, b. 1923: Secretary of State, State Department, Washington.
LE DUC THO, North Vietnam, b. 1911: Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. (Declined the prize.)
for jointly negotiating the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.
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The prize was awarded jointly to:
VON FRISCH, KARL, Federal Republic of Germany, Zoologisches Institut der
Universitat Munchen, Munich, b. 1886 (in Vienna, Austria), d. 1982;
LORENZ, KONRAD, Austria, …sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Institut fur vergleichende Verhaltensforschung, Altenberg, b. 1903, d. 1989;
and
TINBERGEN, NIKOLAAS, Great Britain, Department of Zoology, University
Museum, Oxford, b. 1907 (in the Hague, the Netherlands), d. 1988:
"for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual
and social behaviour patterns"
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Physics
The prize was divided, one half being equally shared between:
ESAKI, LEO, Japan, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,
NY, U.S.A., b. 1925; and
GIAEVER, IVAR, U.S.A., General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, b. 1929(in Bergen, Norway),"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"
and the other half to:
JOSEPHSON, BRIAN D., Great Britain, Cambridge University, Cambridge, b.
1940:"for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through
a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as
the Josephson effects"
Grammy Awards
Record of the Year
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" ...
Roberta Flack
Song of the Year
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" ...
Roberta Flack
Album of the Year
"Innervisions" ... Stevie Wonder
Male Vocalist
Stevie Wonder ... "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
Female Vocalist
Roberta Flack ... "Killing Me Soflty with His Song"
Grammy Awards