Nobel Prize 1963: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta

   Chemistry

   for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers

2. Medicine

   Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane

3. Physics

   Eugene Paul Wigner

   Physics

   for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles

4. Physics

   Maria Goeppert Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen

   Physics

   for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure