Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1962: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew

    Chemistry

    for their studies of the structures of globular proteins

  2. Medicine

    Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material

  3. Physics

    Lev Davidovich Landau

    Physics

    for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium