Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1954: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Linus Carl Pauling

    Chemistry

    for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances

  2. Medicine

    John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins

    Biology

    for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue

  3. Physics

    Max Born

    Physics

    for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction

  4. Physics

    Walther Bothe

    Physics

    for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith