Nobel Prize 1957: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Lord (Alexander R.) Todd

   Chemistry

   for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes

2. Medicine

   Daniel Bovet

   Biology

   for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles

3. Physics

   Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee

   Physics

   for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles