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Last week we reviewed the 1984 Nobel laureates in medicine: immunologists Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Kohler, and C6sar Milstein. 1 In this week’s essay the prizewinners in physics and chemistry are discussed. The 1984 physics prize was shared by Carlo Rubbia, Harvard University and the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, and Simon van der Meer, also of CERN. The Nobel committee honored “their decisive contributions.. which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of the weak interaction. ”z The 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to R. Bruce Mertileld, Rockefeller University, New York, for his development of a “simple and ingenious” method for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix.J