Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize 1961: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
Melvin Calvin
for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants
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Medicine
Georg von Békésy
for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea
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Physics
Robert Hofstadter
for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons
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Physics
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name