Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize 1955: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
Vincent du Vigneaud
for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone
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Medicine
Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes
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Physics
Willis Eugene Lamb
for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum
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Physics
Polykarp Kusch
for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron