Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1939: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt

    Chemistry

    for his work on sex hormones

  2. Chemistry

    Leopold Ruzicka

    Chemistry

    for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes

  3. Medicine

    Gerhard Domagk

    Biology

    for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil

  4. Physics

    Ernest Orlando Lawrence

    Physics

    for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements