Nobel Prize 1946: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   James Batcheller Sumner

   Chemistry

   for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized

2. Chemistry

   John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley

   Chemistry

   for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form

3. Medicine

   Hermann Joseph Muller

   Biology

   for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation

4. Physics

   Percy Williams Bridgman

   Physics

   for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics