Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, December 11, 1994 TAG: 9412140082
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN LENGTH: Medium
At a solemn ceremony in Stockholm's Concert House, King Carl XVI Gustaf handed gold medals and prize checks to Oe and the Nobel laureates in medicine, physics, chemistry and economics. Each prize is worth $931,000.
As a fire in a metal flame holder illuminated the Nordic winter darkness outside, Oe, 59, approached the king on the blue-carpeted stage and received his literature prize.
Americans Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell won the Nobel Prize in physiology-medicine for the discovery of how cells translate and act on signals with the help of G-proteins.
Gilman, 53 and the youngest of this year's laureates, works at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Rodbell, 68, lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.
American Clifford G. Shull and Canadian Bertram N. Brockhouse won the physics prize for development of neutron scattering methods used to study the inner workings of matter.
A Hungarian-born American, George A. Olah, 67, won the chemistry prize for revolutionizing methods of preserving and studying certain types of hydrocarbon molecules.
The economics prize was awarded to two Americans and a German for using ideas behind games like chess and poker to explain how markets and economies work.
The game theory was developed by Hungarian-born John C. Harsanyi, retired from the University of California at Berkeley; John F. Nash of Princeton University, whose family moved to Roanoke when he was in college; and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn.
by CNB