Nobel Prize 1950: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder

   Chemistry

   for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis

2. Medicine

   Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench

   Biology

   for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects

3. Physics

   Cecil Frank Powell

   Physics

   for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method