1964 Nobel Prize

8

laureates

5

fields

1964

Nobel Prize

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

1964 Nobel Prize in Physics

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

Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov

Soviet UnionSoviet Union

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

Soviet UnionSoviet Union

Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

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

Physiology, Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

Konrad Emil Bloch
Konrad Emil Bloch

United States of AmericaUnited States of America

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

West GermanyWest Germany

Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

1964 Nobel Prize in Literature

for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age

Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre

FranceFrance

Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

1964 Nobel Peace Prize

for his non-violent struggle to end racial prejudice in the United States

Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.

United States of AmericaUnited States of America