Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1936: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye

    Chemistry

    for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases

  2. Medicine

    Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi

    Biology

    for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses

  3. Physics

    Victor Franz Hess

    Physics

    for his discovery of cosmic radiation

  4. Physics

    Carl David Anderson

    Physics

    for his discovery of the positron