Nobel Prize 1932: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Irving Langmuir

   Chemistry

   for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry

2. Medicine

   Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian

   Biology

   for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons

3. Physics

   Werner Karl Heisenberg

   Physics

   for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen