1928 Nobel Prize

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laureates

4

fields

1928

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1928 Nobel Prize in Physics

for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him (Richardson’s law)

Owen Willans Richardson
Owen Willans Richardson

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins (especially vitamin D)

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus

German ReichGerman Reich

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1928 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for his work on typhus

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle

FranceFrance

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1928 Nobel Prize in Literature

principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages

Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset

NorwayNorway