Nobel Prize 1944: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Otto Hahn

   Chemistry

   for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei

2. Medicine

   Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser

   Biology

   for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres

3. Physics

   Isidor Isaac Rabi

   Physics

   for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei