Nobel Prize 1958: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Frederick Sanger

   Chemistry

   for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin

2. Medicine

   George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum

   Biology

   for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events

3. Medicine

   Joshua Lederberg

   Biology

   for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria

4. Physics

   Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank

   Physics

   for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect