10 WINNERS GET THEIR NOBEL PRIZES
Author: Associated Press
Date: Friday, December 11, 1981
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Section: RUN OF PAPER
Ten winners of the 1981 Nobel prizes in the sciences and literature, including
six Americans, were honored yesterday with the traditional pomp that
accompanies presentation of the awards.
In Oslo, Poul Hartling, the head of the United Nations Office of High
Commissioner for Refugees accepted the gold medal and diploma awarded as the
Nobel Peace Prize. Hartling, a former Danish prime minister, said that the
money he receives will be used to start a fund for handicapped refugees.
This year's winner of the literature prize, Elias Cannetti, 76, accepted
his award with a plea for peace. Speaking in German, the Bulgarian-born writer
said, "Today, since Hiroshima, everyone knows what war is, and the fact that
everyone knows is our only hope."
The Stockholm laureates received their Nobel diplomas, medals and checks
from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf amid trumpet fanfares in the Stockholm
concert hall. This year's cash awards are $180,000 in each category.
Other winners, announced in October are: economics, James Tobin, 63, of
Yale University; physics, Sweden's Kai Siegbahn, 63, and Americans Nicolaas
Bloembergen, 61, of Harvard University, and Arthur Shawlow, 60; medicine,
Robert Sperry, 68, of the California Institute of Technology, Harvard's David
Hubel, 55, and Swede Torsten Wiesel, 57; chemistry, Kenichi Fukui, 63, of
Kyoto, Japan, and Roald Hoffman, 44, of Cornell University.
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