Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize 1939: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt
for his work on sex hormones
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Chemistry
Leopold Ruzicka
for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes
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Medicine
Gerhard Domagk
for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil
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Physics
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements