1954 Nobel Prize

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laureates

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fields

1954

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1954 Nobel Prize in Physics (1)

for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction

Max Born
Max Born

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

1954 Nobel Prize in Physics (2)

for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith

Walther Bothe
Walther Bothe

West GermanyWest Germany

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances

Linus Carl Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for the discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue

John Franklin Enders

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Thomas Huckle Weller

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Frederick Chapman Robbins
Frederick Chapman Robbins

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1954 Nobel Prize in Literature

for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

1954 Nobel Peace Prize

for providing political and legal protection to refugees during the Cold War

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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