Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1952: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge

    Chemistry

    for their invention of partition chromatography

  2. Medicine

    Selman Abraham Waksman

    Biology

    for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis

  3. Physics

    Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell

    Physics

    for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith