Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1912: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Victor Grignard

    Chemistry

    for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry

  2. Chemistry

    Paul Sabatier

    Chemistry

    for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years

  3. Medicine

    Alexis Carrel

    Biology

    in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs

  4. Physics

    Nils Gustaf Dalén

    Physics

    for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys