Nobel Prize 1938: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Richard Kuhn

   Chemistry

   for his work on carotenoids and vitamins

2. Medicine

   Corneille Jean François Heymans

   Biology

   for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration

3. Physics

   Enrico Fermi

   Physics

   for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons