December Nobel Birthdays

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Date Laureate's Name Year Born
Dec. 1 Finn E. Kydland

Martin Rodbell
1943
1925
Dec. 2 Gary S. Becker

George Richards Minot
1930
1885
Dec. 3 Paul Crutzen
Kim Dae Jung
Richard Kuhn
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
1933
1925
1900
1886
Dec. 4 A.D. Hershey
1908
Dec. 5 Sheldon Lee Glashow
Cecil Frank Powell
Werner Heisenberg
Carl Ferdinand Cori
1932
1903
1901
1896
Dec. 6 Lord George Porter
Gunnar Myrdal
1920
1898
Dec. 7
Dec. 8 Thomas Robert Cech
Bjornstjerne MartinusBjornson
1947
1832
Dec. 9 Henry Way Kendall
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
James Rainwater
Fritz Haber
1926
1919
1917
1868
Dec. 10 Howard Martin Temin
Nelly Leonie Sachs
1934
1891
Dec. 11 Founding of United Nations Children's Fund
Paul Greengard
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Naguib Mahfouz
Max Born
Robert Koch
1946
1925
1918
1911
1882
1843
Dec. 12 Eric S. Maskin
Alfred Werner
1950
1866
Dec. 13 Philip W. Anderson
Trygve Magnus Haavelmo
1923
1911
Dec. 14 Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov
Edward LawrieTatum
1922
1909
Dec. 15 Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Antoine Henri Becquerel
1916
1860
1852
Dec. 16
Dec. 17 Willard Frank Libby
1908
Dec. 18 Harold Elliot Varmus
Willy Brandt
Sir Joseph John Thomson
1939
1913
1856
Dec. 19 Eric A. Cornell
George Davis Snell
Albert Abraham Michelson
1961
1903
1852
Dec. 20 Founding of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
Ferdinand Edouard Buisson
1971
1890
1841
Dec. 21 Heinrich Theodor Boll
Hermann Joseph Muller
1917
1890
Dec. 22 Haldan Keffer Hartline
Frank Billings Kellogg
1903
1856
Dec. 23 Niels Kaj Jerne
1911
Dec. 24 Juan Ramon Jimenez
1881
Dec. 25 Mohamed Anwar El Sadat
Ernst Ruska
Gerhard Herzberg
Adolf Windaus
1918
1906
1904
1876
Dec. 26 Jose Ramos-Horta
Edward C. Prescott
Sir Norman Angell
1949
1940
1873
Dec. 27
Dec. 28 Kary B. Mullis
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1944
1856
Dec. 29 Ronald Coase
1910
Dec. 30 Rudyard Kipling
1865
Dec. 31 Avram Hershko
George Catlett Marshall
1937
1880


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