Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1966: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Robert S. Mulliken

    Chemistry

    for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method

  2. Medicine

    Peyton Rous

    Biology

    for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses

  3. Medicine

    Charles Brenton Huggins

    Biology

    for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer

  4. Physics

    Alfred Kastler

    Physics

    for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms