Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1964: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

    Chemistry

    for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances

  2. Medicine

    Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

  3. Physics

    Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

    Physics

    for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle