1956 Nobel Prize

9

laureates

4

fields

1956

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1956 Nobel Prize in Physics

for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect

William Bradford Shockley
William Bradford Shockley

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

John Bardeen
John Bardeen

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for their researches on the kinetics of gas-phase chemical reactions, in particular chain reactions

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov

Soviet UnionSoviet Union

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system

André Frédéric Cournand
André Frédéric Cournand

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Dickinson W. Richards

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Werner Forssmann
Werner Forssmann

West GermanyWest Germany

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1956 Nobel Prize in Literature

for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity

Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez

SpainSpain