* 1974 – Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

In 1973 Andrei Sakharov was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1974 was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

* 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

In 1974, Hayek shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ( with Gunnar Myrdal ) for his " pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and ... penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.

On 9 October 1974, it was announced that Hayek would be awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, along with Swedish socialist economist Gunnar Myrdal.

During the Nobel ceremony in December 1974, Hayek met the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

When, in 1974, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal, the latter complained about being paired with an " ideologue ".

After hearing a lecture on the subject of Lovelock's results, they embarked on research that resulted in the first published paper that suggested a link between stratospheric CFCs and ozone depletion in 1974, and later shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( with Paul Crutzen ) for their work.

* 1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate ( d. 1974 )

* 1897 – Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1974 )

* 1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1974 )

* 1899 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1974 )

Together with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, George Emil Palade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 1974, for the discovery of the ribosomes.

Ribosomes were first observed in the mid-1950s by Romanian cell biologist George Emil Palade using an electron microscope as dense particles or granules for which, in 1974, he would win a Nobel Prize.

Professor Gunnar Myrdal received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974.

Gunnar Myrdal received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974 ( shared with his ideological nemesis, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek ); Bertil Ohlin received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 ( shared with British economist James Meade ).

* November 19 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1974 )

* November 18 – Patrick Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1974 )

* May 23 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1974 )

* October 20 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1974 )

" Nobel Literature laureate Octavio Paz wrote in 1974 that " the Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments, have faith only in the Virgin of Guadalupe and the National Lottery ".

* Christian de Duve, cytologist and biochemist, recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1917 )

In 1974, the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Sean MacBride said, in his Nobel Lecture, " To the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights one more might, with relevance, be added.

Binary pulsars have been observed, the first in 1974, whose orbits not only require the use of General Relativity for their explanation, but whose evolution proves the existence of gravitational radiation, a discovery that led to the 1993 Nobel Physics Prize.

Peace Corps Volunteers served in Seychelles between 1974 and 1995.

In August 1974, before Stirling was ready to go public with GB75, the pacifist magazine Peace News obtained and published his plans, and eventually Stirling-dismayed by the right-wing character of many of those seeking to join GB75-abandoned the scheme.

* Peace on You ( 1974 )

* " The Golden Age of Rock ' n ' Roll " / " Rest in Peace " ( March 1974 ) – UK No. 16 / US No. 96

# Eisaku Satō, Peace, 1974

That group disbanded by 1974, but Scholz subsequently worked with Masdea and Delp to produce six new demos, including " More Than a Feeling ," " Peace of Mind ," " Rock and Roll Band ," " Something About You " ( then entitled " It Isn't Easy "), " Hitch a Ride " and " Don't Be Afraid.

Satō shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Seán MacBride in 1974.

* Nobel Peace Prize ( 12 May 1974 )

* Nobel Committee information on 1974 Peace Prize

The original version of Elvis Costello's hit "( What's So Funny ' Bout ) Peace, Love, and Understanding ", written by Lowe, was released by the band in 1974 on their album The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz, and also featured on the multimillion selling soundtrack of the movie The Bodyguard, where it was performed by Curtis Stigers.

The American cardiologist Bernard Lown and the Russian cardiologist Yevgeniy Chazov were motivated in conscience through studying the catastrophic public health consequences of nuclear war in establishing International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War ( IPPNW ) which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 and continues to work to " heal an ailing planet ". World wide expressions of conscience contributed to the decision of the French government to halt atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa in the Pacific in 1974 after 41 such explosions ( although below-ground nuclear tests continued there into the 1990s ).

Other prominent artworks on the grounds include a Marc Chagall stained glass window memorializing the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the Japanese Peace Bell which is rung on the vernal equinox and the opening of each General Assembly session, a Chinese ivory carving made in 1974 ( before the ivory trade was largely banned in 1989 ), and a Venetian mosaic depicting Norman Rockwell's painting The Golden Rule.

She was made a member of the World Peace Council in 1966, a member of the Yaroslavl Soviet in 1967, a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1966 – 1970 and 1970 – 1974, and was elected to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1974.

1974 – Alpinists from Novosibirsk hoisted the Banner of Peace on the Roerich peak near Belukha Mountain ( Altai ).

He worked both as a director and actor in both films and television, and his appearances included such movies as The Spiral Staircase ( 1974 ), Private Benjamin ( 1980 ), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ), and Baby Boom ( 1987 ).

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974, the Lenin Peace Prize for 1975 – 76, and the UNESCO Silver Medal for Service in 1980.

Following this, he was also elected Chair ( 1968 – 1974 ) and later President ( 1974 – 1985 ) of the International Peace Bureau in Geneva.

MacBride's work was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ( 1974 ) as a man who " mobilised the conscience of the world in the fight against injustice ".

* 1968 – 1974 Chairman of the Executive International Peace Bureau

California formerly had Justice of the Peace courts staffed by lay judges, but began phasing them out after a landmark 1974 decision in which the Supreme Court of California unanimously held that it was a violation of federal due process ( under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution ) to allow a non-lawyer to preside over a criminal trial which could result in incarceration of the defendant.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.