Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1955: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Vincent du Vigneaud

    Chemistry

    for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone

  2. Medicine

    Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell

    Biology

    for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes

  3. Physics

    Willis Eugene Lamb

    Physics

    for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum

  4. Physics

    Polykarp Kusch

    Physics

    for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron