Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize 1964: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances
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Medicine
Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen
for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
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Physics
Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
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