Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1961: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Melvin Calvin

    Chemistry

    for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants

  2. Medicine

    Georg von Békésy

    Biology

    for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea

  3. Physics

    Robert Hofstadter

    Physics

    for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons

  4. Physics

    Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

    Physics

    for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name