Nobel Prize 1956: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov

   Chemistry

   for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions

2. Medicine

   André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system

3. Physics

   William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain

   Physics

   for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect