Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1953: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Hermann Staudinger

    Chemistry

    for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry

  2. Medicine

    Hans Adolf Krebs

    Biology

    for his discovery of the citric acid cycle

  3. Medicine

    Fritz Albert Lipmann

    Biology

    for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism

  4. Physics

    Frits Zernike

    Physics

    for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope