Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1952 and 1955?

Answer: Albert Schweitzer

Answer: George C. Marshall

Answer: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Albert Schweitzer
The Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
Born: 14, Jan, 1875, Kaysersberg, Germany (now France)
Died: 4, Sep, 1965, Lambaréné, Gabon
Prize motivation: "for his altruism reverence for life and tireless humanitarian work which has helped making the idea of brotherhood between men and nations a living one"

George C. Marshall
The Nobel Peace Prize 1953.
Born: 31, Dec, 1880, Uniontown PA, USA
Died: 16, Oct, 1959, Washington D.C., USA
Prize motivation: "for proposing and supervising the plan for the economic recovery of Europe"

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Nobel Peace Prize 1954.
Founded: 14, Dec, 1950
Prize motivation: "for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1952 and 1955?

Answer: Selman A. Waksman

Answer: Hans Krebs

Answer: Fritz Lipmann

Answer: John F. Enders

Answer: Thomas H. Weller

Answer: Frederick C. Robbins

Answer: Hugo Theorell

Selman A. Waksman
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1952.
Born: 22, Jul, 1888, Priluka (now Nova Pryluka), Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died: 16, Aug, 1973, Hyannis MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of streptomycin the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Hans Krebs
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
Born: 25, Aug, 1900, Hildesheim, Germany
Died: 22, Nov, 1981, Oxford, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Fritz Lipmann
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
Born: 12, Jun, 1899, Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad), Germany (now Russia)
Died: 24, Jul, 1986, Poughkeepsie NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

John F. Enders
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 10, Feb, 1897, West Hartford CT, USA
Died: 8, Sep, 1985, Waterford CT, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Thomas H. Weller
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 15, Jun, 1915, Ann Arbor MI, USA
Died: 23, Aug, 2008, Needham MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Research Division of Infectious Diseases Children's Medical Center, Boston MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Frederick C. Robbins
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 25, Aug, 1916, Auburn AL, USA
Died: 4, Aug, 2003, Cleveland OH, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Hugo Theorell
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1955.
Born: 6, Jul, 1903, Linköping, Sweden
Died: 15, Aug, 1982, Stockholm, Sweden
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Karolinska Institutet Nobel Medical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1952 and 1955?

Answer: Felix Bloch

Answer: E. M. Purcell

Answer: Frits Zernike

Answer: Max Born

Answer: Walther Bothe

Answer: Polykarp Kusch

Answer: Willis E. Lamb

Felix Bloch
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952.
Born: 23, Oct, 1905, Zurich, Switzerland
Died: 10, Sep, 1983, Zurich, Switzerland
Prize motivation: "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

E. M. Purcell
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952.
Born: 30, Aug, 1912, Taylorville IL, USA
Died: 7, Mar, 1997, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Frits Zernike
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1953.
Born: 16, Jul, 1888, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Died: 10, Mar, 1966, Groningen, the Netherlands
Prize motivation: "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands
Prize share: 1/1

Max Born
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
Born: 11, Dec, 1882, Breslau (now Wroclaw), Germany (now Poland)
Died: 5, Jan, 1970, Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Walther Bothe
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
Born: 8, Jan, 1891, Oranienburg, Germany
Died: 8, Feb, 1957, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Polykarp Kusch
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
Born: 26, Jan, 1911, Blankenburg, Germany
Died: 20, Mar, 1993, Dallas TX, USA
Prize motivation: "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Willis E. Lamb
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
Born: 12, Jul, 1913, Los Angeles CA, USA
Died: 15, May, 2008, Tucson AZ, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1953 and 1956?

Answer: Winston Churchill

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Answer: Halldór Laxness

Answer: Juan Ramón Jiménez

Winston Churchill
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953.
Born: 30, Nov, 1874, Woodstock, United Kingdom
Died: 24, Jan, 1965, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"
Prize share: 1/1

Ernest Hemingway
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.
Born: 21, Jul, 1899, Oak Park IL, USA
Died: 2, Jul, 1961, Ketchum ID, USA
Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative most recently demonstrated in <I>The Old Man and the Sea</I> and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"
Prize share: 1/1

Halldór Laxness
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1955.
Born: 23, Apr, 1902, Reykjavik, Iceland
Died: 8, Feb, 1998, Reykjavik, Iceland
Prize motivation: "for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"
Prize share: 1/1

Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1956.
Born: 24, Dec, 1881, Moguer, Spain
Died: 29, May, 1958, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1953 and 1956?

Answer: Hermann Staudinger

Answer: Linus Pauling

Answer: Vincent du Vigneaud

Answer: Nikolay Semenov

Answer: Sir Cyril Hinshelwood

Hermann Staudinger
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953.
Born: 23, Mar, 1881, Worms, Germany
Died: 8, Sep, 1965, Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany
Prize share: 1/1

Linus Pauling
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954.
Born: 28, Feb, 1901, Portland OR, USA
Died: 19, Aug, 1994, Big Sur CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Vincent du Vigneaud
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
Born: 18, May, 1901, Chicago IL, USA
Died: 11, Dec, 1978, White Plains NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Nikolay Semenov
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956.
Born: 3, Apr, 1896, Saratov, Russia
Died: 25, Sep, 1986, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/2

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956.
Born: 19, May, 1897, London, United Kingdom
Died: 9, Oct, 1967, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1953 and 1956?

Answer: George C. Marshall

Answer: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

George C. Marshall
The Nobel Peace Prize 1953.
Born: 31, Dec, 1880, Uniontown PA, USA
Died: 16, Oct, 1959, Washington D.C., USA
Prize motivation: "for proposing and supervising the plan for the economic recovery of Europe"

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Nobel Peace Prize 1954.
Founded: 14, Dec, 1950
Prize motivation: "for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1953 and 1956?

Answer: Hans Krebs

Answer: Fritz Lipmann

Answer: John F. Enders

Answer: Thomas H. Weller

Answer: Frederick C. Robbins

Answer: Hugo Theorell

Answer: Werner Forssmann

Answer: André F. Cournand

Answer: Dickinson W. Richards

Hans Krebs
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
Born: 25, Aug, 1900, Hildesheim, Germany
Died: 22, Nov, 1981, Oxford, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Sheffield University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Fritz Lipmann
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
Born: 12, Jun, 1899, Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad), Germany (now Russia)
Died: 24, Jul, 1986, Poughkeepsie NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

John F. Enders
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 10, Feb, 1897, West Hartford CT, USA
Died: 8, Sep, 1985, Waterford CT, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Thomas H. Weller
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 15, Jun, 1915, Ann Arbor MI, USA
Died: 23, Aug, 2008, Needham MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Research Division of Infectious Diseases Children's Medical Center, Boston MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Frederick C. Robbins
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 25, Aug, 1916, Auburn AL, USA
Died: 4, Aug, 2003, Cleveland OH, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Hugo Theorell
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1955.
Born: 6, Jul, 1903, Linköping, Sweden
Died: 15, Aug, 1982, Stockholm, Sweden
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Karolinska Institutet Nobel Medical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Prize share: 1/1

Werner Forssmann
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 29, Aug, 1904, Berlin, Germany
Died: 1, Jun, 1979, Schopfheim, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Mainz University, Mainz, Germany
Prize share: 1/3

André F. Cournand
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 24, Sep, 1895, Paris, France
Died: 19, Feb, 1988, Great Barrington MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University Division Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory Bellevue Hospital, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Dickinson W. Richards
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 30, Oct, 1895, Orange NJ, USA
Died: 23, Feb, 1973, Lakeville CT, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/3


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1953 and 1956?

Answer: Frits Zernike

Answer: Max Born

Answer: Walther Bothe

Answer: Polykarp Kusch

Answer: Willis E. Lamb

Answer: Walter H. Brattain

Answer: John Bardeen

Answer: William B. Shockley

Frits Zernike
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1953.
Born: 16, Jul, 1888, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Died: 10, Mar, 1966, Groningen, the Netherlands
Prize motivation: "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands
Prize share: 1/1

Max Born
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
Born: 11, Dec, 1882, Breslau (now Wroclaw), Germany (now Poland)
Died: 5, Jan, 1970, Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Walther Bothe
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
Born: 8, Jan, 1891, Oranienburg, Germany
Died: 8, Feb, 1957, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Polykarp Kusch
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
Born: 26, Jan, 1911, Blankenburg, Germany
Died: 20, Mar, 1993, Dallas TX, USA
Prize motivation: "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Willis E. Lamb
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
Born: 12, Jul, 1913, Los Angeles CA, USA
Died: 15, May, 2008, Tucson AZ, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Walter H. Brattain
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 10, Feb, 1902, Amoy, China
Died: 13, Oct, 1987, Seattle WA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/3

John Bardeen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 23, May, 1908, Madison WI, USA
Died: 30, Jan, 1991, Boston MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Illinois, Urbana IL, USA
Prize share: 1/3

William B. Shockley
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 13, Feb, 1910, London, United Kingdom
Died: 12, Aug, 1989, Palo Alto CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments Inc., Mountain View CA, USA
Prize share: 1/3


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1954 and 1957?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Answer: Halldór Laxness

Answer: Juan Ramón Jiménez

Answer: Albert Camus

Ernest Hemingway
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.
Born: 21, Jul, 1899, Oak Park IL, USA
Died: 2, Jul, 1961, Ketchum ID, USA
Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative most recently demonstrated in <I>The Old Man and the Sea</I> and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"
Prize share: 1/1

Halldór Laxness
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1955.
Born: 23, Apr, 1902, Reykjavik, Iceland
Died: 8, Feb, 1998, Reykjavik, Iceland
Prize motivation: "for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"
Prize share: 1/1

Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1956.
Born: 24, Dec, 1881, Moguer, Spain
Died: 29, May, 1958, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"
Prize share: 1/1

Albert Camus
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
Born: 7, Nov, 1913, Mondovi, French Algeria (now Algeria)
Died: 4, Jan, 1960, Sens, France
Prize motivation: "for his important literary production which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1954 and 1957?

Answer: Linus Pauling

Answer: Vincent du Vigneaud

Answer: Nikolay Semenov

Answer: Sir Cyril Hinshelwood

Answer: Lord Todd

Linus Pauling
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954.
Born: 28, Feb, 1901, Portland OR, USA
Died: 19, Aug, 1994, Big Sur CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Vincent du Vigneaud
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
Born: 18, May, 1901, Chicago IL, USA
Died: 11, Dec, 1978, White Plains NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Nikolay Semenov
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956.
Born: 3, Apr, 1896, Saratov, Russia
Died: 25, Sep, 1986, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/2

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956.
Born: 19, May, 1897, London, United Kingdom
Died: 9, Oct, 1967, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Lord Todd
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957.
Born: 2, Oct, 1907, Glasgow, Scotland
Died: 10, Jan, 1997, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1954 and 1957?

Answer: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Answer: Lester Bowles Pearson

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Nobel Peace Prize 1954.
Founded: 14, Dec, 1950
Prize motivation: "for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world"

Lester Bowles Pearson
The Nobel Peace Prize 1957.
Born: 23, Apr, 1897, Toronto, Canada
Died: 27, Dec, 1972, Ottawa, Canada
Prize motivation: "for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1954 and 1957?

Answer: John F. Enders

Answer: Thomas H. Weller

Answer: Frederick C. Robbins

Answer: Hugo Theorell

Answer: Werner Forssmann

Answer: André F. Cournand

Answer: Dickinson W. Richards

Answer: Daniel Bovet

John F. Enders
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 10, Feb, 1897, West Hartford CT, USA
Died: 8, Sep, 1985, Waterford CT, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Thomas H. Weller
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 15, Jun, 1915, Ann Arbor MI, USA
Died: 23, Aug, 2008, Needham MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Research Division of Infectious Diseases Children's Medical Center, Boston MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Frederick C. Robbins
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1954.
Born: 25, Aug, 1916, Auburn AL, USA
Died: 4, Aug, 2003, Cleveland OH, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Hugo Theorell
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1955.
Born: 6, Jul, 1903, Linköping, Sweden
Died: 15, Aug, 1982, Stockholm, Sweden
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Karolinska Institutet Nobel Medical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Prize share: 1/1

Werner Forssmann
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 29, Aug, 1904, Berlin, Germany
Died: 1, Jun, 1979, Schopfheim, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Mainz University, Mainz, Germany
Prize share: 1/3

André F. Cournand
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 24, Sep, 1895, Paris, France
Died: 19, Feb, 1988, Great Barrington MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University Division Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory Bellevue Hospital, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Dickinson W. Richards
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 30, Oct, 1895, Orange NJ, USA
Died: 23, Feb, 1973, Lakeville CT, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Daniel Bovet
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1957.
Born: 23, Mar, 1907, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died: 8, Apr, 1992, Rome, Italy
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Chief Institute of Public Health), Rome, Italy
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1954 and 1957?

Answer: Max Born

Answer: Walther Bothe

Answer: Polykarp Kusch

Answer: Willis E. Lamb

Answer: Walter H. Brattain

Answer: John Bardeen

Answer: William B. Shockley

Answer: Chen Ning Yang

Answer: Tsung-Dao Lee

Max Born
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
Born: 11, Dec, 1882, Breslau (now Wroclaw), Germany (now Poland)
Died: 5, Jan, 1970, Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Walther Bothe
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
Born: 8, Jan, 1891, Oranienburg, Germany
Died: 8, Feb, 1957, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Polykarp Kusch
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
Born: 26, Jan, 1911, Blankenburg, Germany
Died: 20, Mar, 1993, Dallas TX, USA
Prize motivation: "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Willis E. Lamb
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
Born: 12, Jul, 1913, Los Angeles CA, USA
Died: 15, May, 2008, Tucson AZ, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Walter H. Brattain
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 10, Feb, 1902, Amoy, China
Died: 13, Oct, 1987, Seattle WA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/3

John Bardeen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 23, May, 1908, Madison WI, USA
Died: 30, Jan, 1991, Boston MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Illinois, Urbana IL, USA
Prize share: 1/3

William B. Shockley
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 13, Feb, 1910, London, United Kingdom
Died: 12, Aug, 1989, Palo Alto CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments Inc., Mountain View CA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Chen Ning Yang
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
Born: 22, Sep, 1922, Hofei Anhwei, China
Prize motivation: "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Tsung-Dao Lee
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
Born: 24, Nov, 1926, Shanghai, China
Prize motivation: "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1955 and 1958?

Answer: Halldór Laxness

Answer: Juan Ramón Jiménez

Answer: Albert Camus

Answer: Boris Pasternak

Halldór Laxness
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1955.
Born: 23, Apr, 1902, Reykjavik, Iceland
Died: 8, Feb, 1998, Reykjavik, Iceland
Prize motivation: "for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"
Prize share: 1/1

Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1956.
Born: 24, Dec, 1881, Moguer, Spain
Died: 29, May, 1958, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"
Prize share: 1/1

Albert Camus
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
Born: 7, Nov, 1913, Mondovi, French Algeria (now Algeria)
Died: 4, Jan, 1960, Sens, France
Prize motivation: "for his important literary production which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
Prize share: 1/1

Boris Pasternak
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958.
Born: 10, Feb, 1890, Moscow, Russia
Died: 30, May, 1960, Peredelkino, Russia
Prize motivation: "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1955 and 1958?

Answer: Vincent du Vigneaud

Answer: Nikolay Semenov

Answer: Sir Cyril Hinshelwood

Answer: Lord Todd

Answer: Frederick Sanger

Vincent du Vigneaud
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
Born: 18, May, 1901, Chicago IL, USA
Died: 11, Dec, 1978, White Plains NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Nikolay Semenov
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956.
Born: 3, Apr, 1896, Saratov, Russia
Died: 25, Sep, 1986, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/2

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956.
Born: 19, May, 1897, London, United Kingdom
Died: 9, Oct, 1967, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Lord Todd
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957.
Born: 2, Oct, 1907, Glasgow, Scotland
Died: 10, Jan, 1997, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1

Frederick Sanger
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958.
Born: 13, Aug, 1918, Rendcombe, United Kingdom
Died: 19, Nov, 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his work on the structure of proteins especially that of insulin"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1955 and 1958?

Answer: Lester Bowles Pearson

Answer: Georges Pire

Lester Bowles Pearson
The Nobel Peace Prize 1957.
Born: 23, Apr, 1897, Toronto, Canada
Died: 27, Dec, 1972, Ottawa, Canada
Prize motivation: "for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis"

Georges Pire
The Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
Born: 10, Feb, 1910, Dinant, Belgium
Died: 30, Jan, 1969, Leuven, Belgium
Prize motivation: "for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1955 and 1958?

Answer: Hugo Theorell

Answer: Werner Forssmann

Answer: André F. Cournand

Answer: Dickinson W. Richards

Answer: Daniel Bovet

Answer: Edward Tatum

Answer: Joshua Lederberg

Answer: George Beadle

Hugo Theorell
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1955.
Born: 6, Jul, 1903, Linköping, Sweden
Died: 15, Aug, 1982, Stockholm, Sweden
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Karolinska Institutet Nobel Medical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Prize share: 1/1

Werner Forssmann
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 29, Aug, 1904, Berlin, Germany
Died: 1, Jun, 1979, Schopfheim, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Mainz University, Mainz, Germany
Prize share: 1/3

André F. Cournand
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 24, Sep, 1895, Paris, France
Died: 19, Feb, 1988, Great Barrington MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University Division Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory Bellevue Hospital, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Dickinson W. Richards
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 30, Oct, 1895, Orange NJ, USA
Died: 23, Feb, 1973, Lakeville CT, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Daniel Bovet
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1957.
Born: 23, Mar, 1907, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died: 8, Apr, 1992, Rome, Italy
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Chief Institute of Public Health), Rome, Italy
Prize share: 1/1

Edward Tatum
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 14, Dec, 1909, Boulder CO, USA
Died: 5, Nov, 1975, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/4

Joshua Lederberg
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 23, May, 1925, Montclair NJ, USA
Died: 2, Feb, 2008, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, USA
Prize share: 1/2

George Beadle
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 22, Oct, 1903, Wahoo NE, USA
Died: 9, Jun, 1989, Pomona CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena CA, USA
Prize share: 1/4


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1955 and 1958?

Answer: Polykarp Kusch

Answer: Willis E. Lamb

Answer: Walter H. Brattain

Answer: John Bardeen

Answer: William B. Shockley

Answer: Chen Ning Yang

Answer: Tsung-Dao Lee

Answer: Il´ja M. Frank

Answer: Igor Y. Tamm

Answer: Pavel A. Cherenkov

Polykarp Kusch
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
Born: 26, Jan, 1911, Blankenburg, Germany
Died: 20, Mar, 1993, Dallas TX, USA
Prize motivation: "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Willis E. Lamb
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955.
Born: 12, Jul, 1913, Los Angeles CA, USA
Died: 15, May, 2008, Tucson AZ, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Walter H. Brattain
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 10, Feb, 1902, Amoy, China
Died: 13, Oct, 1987, Seattle WA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/3

John Bardeen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 23, May, 1908, Madison WI, USA
Died: 30, Jan, 1991, Boston MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Illinois, Urbana IL, USA
Prize share: 1/3

William B. Shockley
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 13, Feb, 1910, London, United Kingdom
Died: 12, Aug, 1989, Palo Alto CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments Inc., Mountain View CA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Chen Ning Yang
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
Born: 22, Sep, 1922, Hofei Anhwei, China
Prize motivation: "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Tsung-Dao Lee
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
Born: 24, Nov, 1926, Shanghai, China
Prize motivation: "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Il´ja M. Frank
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 23, Oct, 1908, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia
Died: 22, Jun, 1990, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Igor Y. Tamm
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 8, Jul, 1895, Vladivostok, Russia
Died: 12, Apr, 1971, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Pavel A. Cherenkov
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 28, Jul, 1904, Novaya Chigla, Russia
Died: 6, Jan, 1990, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1956 and 1959?

Answer: Juan Ramón Jiménez

Answer: Albert Camus

Answer: Boris Pasternak

Answer: Salvatore Quasimodo

Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1956.
Born: 24, Dec, 1881, Moguer, Spain
Died: 29, May, 1958, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"
Prize share: 1/1

Albert Camus
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
Born: 7, Nov, 1913, Mondovi, French Algeria (now Algeria)
Died: 4, Jan, 1960, Sens, France
Prize motivation: "for his important literary production which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
Prize share: 1/1

Boris Pasternak
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958.
Born: 10, Feb, 1890, Moscow, Russia
Died: 30, May, 1960, Peredelkino, Russia
Prize motivation: "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"
Prize share: 1/1

Salvatore Quasimodo
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1959.
Born: 20, Aug, 1901, Modica, Italy
Died: 14, Jun, 1968, Naples, Italy
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1956 and 1959?

Answer: Nikolay Semenov

Answer: Sir Cyril Hinshelwood

Answer: Lord Todd

Answer: Frederick Sanger

Answer: Jaroslav Heyrovsky

Nikolay Semenov
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956.
Born: 3, Apr, 1896, Saratov, Russia
Died: 25, Sep, 1986, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/2

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956.
Born: 19, May, 1897, London, United Kingdom
Died: 9, Oct, 1967, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Lord Todd
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957.
Born: 2, Oct, 1907, Glasgow, Scotland
Died: 10, Jan, 1997, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1

Frederick Sanger
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958.
Born: 13, Aug, 1918, Rendcombe, United Kingdom
Died: 19, Nov, 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his work on the structure of proteins especially that of insulin"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1

Jaroslav Heyrovsky
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959.
Born: 20, Dec, 1890, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died: 27, Mar, 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Prize motivation: "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1956 and 1959?

Answer: Lester Bowles Pearson

Answer: Georges Pire

Answer: Philip Noel-Baker

Lester Bowles Pearson
The Nobel Peace Prize 1957.
Born: 23, Apr, 1897, Toronto, Canada
Died: 27, Dec, 1972, Ottawa, Canada
Prize motivation: "for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis"

Georges Pire
The Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
Born: 10, Feb, 1910, Dinant, Belgium
Died: 30, Jan, 1969, Leuven, Belgium
Prize motivation: "for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity"

Philip Noel-Baker
The Nobel Peace Prize 1959.
Born: 1, Nov, 1889, London, United Kingdom
Died: 8, Oct, 1982, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his longstanding contribution to the cause of disarmament and peace"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1956 and 1959?

Answer: Werner Forssmann

Answer: André F. Cournand

Answer: Dickinson W. Richards

Answer: Daniel Bovet

Answer: Edward Tatum

Answer: Joshua Lederberg

Answer: George Beadle

Answer: Arthur Kornberg

Answer: Severo Ochoa

Werner Forssmann
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 29, Aug, 1904, Berlin, Germany
Died: 1, Jun, 1979, Schopfheim, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Mainz University, Mainz, Germany
Prize share: 1/3

André F. Cournand
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 24, Sep, 1895, Paris, France
Died: 19, Feb, 1988, Great Barrington MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University Division Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory Bellevue Hospital, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Dickinson W. Richards
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
Born: 30, Oct, 1895, Orange NJ, USA
Died: 23, Feb, 1973, Lakeville CT, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Daniel Bovet
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1957.
Born: 23, Mar, 1907, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died: 8, Apr, 1992, Rome, Italy
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Chief Institute of Public Health), Rome, Italy
Prize share: 1/1

Edward Tatum
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 14, Dec, 1909, Boulder CO, USA
Died: 5, Nov, 1975, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/4

Joshua Lederberg
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 23, May, 1925, Montclair NJ, USA
Died: 2, Feb, 2008, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, USA
Prize share: 1/2

George Beadle
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 22, Oct, 1903, Wahoo NE, USA
Died: 9, Jun, 1989, Pomona CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena CA, USA
Prize share: 1/4

Arthur Kornberg
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
Born: 3, Mar, 1918, Brooklyn NY, USA
Died: 26, Oct, 2007, Stanford CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Severo Ochoa
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
Born: 24, Sep, 1905, Luarca, Spain
Died: 1, Nov, 1993, Madrid, Spain
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Affiliation at the time of the award: New York University College of Medicine, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1956 and 1959?

Answer: Walter H. Brattain

Answer: John Bardeen

Answer: William B. Shockley

Answer: Chen Ning Yang

Answer: Tsung-Dao Lee

Answer: Il´ja M. Frank

Answer: Igor Y. Tamm

Answer: Pavel A. Cherenkov

Answer: Owen Chamberlain

Answer: Emilio Segrè

Walter H. Brattain
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 10, Feb, 1902, Amoy, China
Died: 13, Oct, 1987, Seattle WA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/3

John Bardeen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 23, May, 1908, Madison WI, USA
Died: 30, Jan, 1991, Boston MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Illinois, Urbana IL, USA
Prize share: 1/3

William B. Shockley
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 13, Feb, 1910, London, United Kingdom
Died: 12, Aug, 1989, Palo Alto CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments Inc., Mountain View CA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Chen Ning Yang
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
Born: 22, Sep, 1922, Hofei Anhwei, China
Prize motivation: "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Tsung-Dao Lee
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
Born: 24, Nov, 1926, Shanghai, China
Prize motivation: "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Il´ja M. Frank
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 23, Oct, 1908, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia
Died: 22, Jun, 1990, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Igor Y. Tamm
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 8, Jul, 1895, Vladivostok, Russia
Died: 12, Apr, 1971, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Pavel A. Cherenkov
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 28, Jul, 1904, Novaya Chigla, Russia
Died: 6, Jan, 1990, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Owen Chamberlain
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959.
Born: 10, Jul, 1920, San Francisco CA, USA
Died: 28, Feb, 2006, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Emilio Segrè
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959.
Born: 1, Feb, 1905, Tivoli, Italy
Died: 22, Apr, 1989, Lafayette CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1957 and 1960?

Answer: Albert Camus

Answer: Boris Pasternak

Answer: Salvatore Quasimodo

Answer: Saint-John Perse

Albert Camus
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
Born: 7, Nov, 1913, Mondovi, French Algeria (now Algeria)
Died: 4, Jan, 1960, Sens, France
Prize motivation: "for his important literary production which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
Prize share: 1/1

Boris Pasternak
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958.
Born: 10, Feb, 1890, Moscow, Russia
Died: 30, May, 1960, Peredelkino, Russia
Prize motivation: "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"
Prize share: 1/1

Salvatore Quasimodo
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1959.
Born: 20, Aug, 1901, Modica, Italy
Died: 14, Jun, 1968, Naples, Italy
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"
Prize share: 1/1

Saint-John Perse
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
Born: 31, May, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Island
Died: 20, Sep, 1975, Presqu'île-de-Giens, France
Prize motivation: "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1957 and 1960?

Answer: Lord Todd

Answer: Frederick Sanger

Answer: Jaroslav Heyrovsky

Answer: Willard F. Libby

Lord Todd
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957.
Born: 2, Oct, 1907, Glasgow, Scotland
Died: 10, Jan, 1997, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1

Frederick Sanger
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958.
Born: 13, Aug, 1918, Rendcombe, United Kingdom
Died: 19, Nov, 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his work on the structure of proteins especially that of insulin"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1

Jaroslav Heyrovsky
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959.
Born: 20, Dec, 1890, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died: 27, Mar, 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Prize motivation: "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Prize share: 1/1

Willard F. Libby
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960.
Born: 17, Dec, 1908, Grand Valley CO, USA
Died: 8, Sep, 1980, Los Angeles CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology geology geophysics and other branches of science"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1957 and 1960?

Answer: Lester Bowles Pearson

Answer: Georges Pire

Answer: Philip Noel-Baker

Answer: Albert Lutuli

Lester Bowles Pearson
The Nobel Peace Prize 1957.
Born: 23, Apr, 1897, Toronto, Canada
Died: 27, Dec, 1972, Ottawa, Canada
Prize motivation: "for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis"

Georges Pire
The Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
Born: 10, Feb, 1910, Dinant, Belgium
Died: 30, Jan, 1969, Leuven, Belgium
Prize motivation: "for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity"

Philip Noel-Baker
The Nobel Peace Prize 1959.
Born: 1, Nov, 1889, London, United Kingdom
Died: 8, Oct, 1982, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his longstanding contribution to the cause of disarmament and peace"

Albert Lutuli
The Nobel Peace Prize 1960.
Born: 1898, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Died: 21, Jul, 1967, Stanger, South Africa
Prize motivation: "for his non-violent struggle against apartheid"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1957 and 1960?

Answer: Daniel Bovet

Answer: Edward Tatum

Answer: Joshua Lederberg

Answer: George Beadle

Answer: Arthur Kornberg

Answer: Severo Ochoa

Answer: Peter Medawar

Answer: Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Daniel Bovet
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1957.
Born: 23, Mar, 1907, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died: 8, Apr, 1992, Rome, Italy
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Chief Institute of Public Health), Rome, Italy
Prize share: 1/1

Edward Tatum
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 14, Dec, 1909, Boulder CO, USA
Died: 5, Nov, 1975, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/4

Joshua Lederberg
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 23, May, 1925, Montclair NJ, USA
Died: 2, Feb, 2008, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, USA
Prize share: 1/2

George Beadle
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 22, Oct, 1903, Wahoo NE, USA
Died: 9, Jun, 1989, Pomona CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena CA, USA
Prize share: 1/4

Arthur Kornberg
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
Born: 3, Mar, 1918, Brooklyn NY, USA
Died: 26, Oct, 2007, Stanford CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Severo Ochoa
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
Born: 24, Sep, 1905, Luarca, Spain
Died: 1, Nov, 1993, Madrid, Spain
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Affiliation at the time of the award: New York University College of Medicine, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Peter Medawar
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1960.
Born: 28, Feb, 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2, Oct, 1987, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1960.
Born: 3, Sep, 1899, Traralgon, Australia
Died: 31, Aug, 1985, Melbourne, Australia
Prize motivation: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1957 and 1960?

Answer: Chen Ning Yang

Answer: Tsung-Dao Lee

Answer: Il´ja M. Frank

Answer: Igor Y. Tamm

Answer: Pavel A. Cherenkov

Answer: Owen Chamberlain

Answer: Emilio Segrè

Answer: Donald A. Glaser

Chen Ning Yang
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
Born: 22, Sep, 1922, Hofei Anhwei, China
Prize motivation: "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Tsung-Dao Lee
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
Born: 24, Nov, 1926, Shanghai, China
Prize motivation: "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Il´ja M. Frank
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 23, Oct, 1908, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia
Died: 22, Jun, 1990, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Igor Y. Tamm
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 8, Jul, 1895, Vladivostok, Russia
Died: 12, Apr, 1971, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Pavel A. Cherenkov
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 28, Jul, 1904, Novaya Chigla, Russia
Died: 6, Jan, 1990, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Owen Chamberlain
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959.
Born: 10, Jul, 1920, San Francisco CA, USA
Died: 28, Feb, 2006, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Emilio Segrè
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959.
Born: 1, Feb, 1905, Tivoli, Italy
Died: 22, Apr, 1989, Lafayette CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Donald A. Glaser
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960.
Born: 21, Sep, 1926, Cleveland OH, USA
Died: 28, Feb, 2013, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for the invention of the bubble chamber"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1958 and 1961?

Answer: Boris Pasternak

Answer: Salvatore Quasimodo

Answer: Saint-John Perse

Answer: Ivo Andric

Boris Pasternak
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958.
Born: 10, Feb, 1890, Moscow, Russia
Died: 30, May, 1960, Peredelkino, Russia
Prize motivation: "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"
Prize share: 1/1

Salvatore Quasimodo
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1959.
Born: 20, Aug, 1901, Modica, Italy
Died: 14, Jun, 1968, Naples, Italy
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"
Prize share: 1/1

Saint-John Perse
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
Born: 31, May, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Island
Died: 20, Sep, 1975, Presqu'île-de-Giens, France
Prize motivation: "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"
Prize share: 1/1

Ivo Andric
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961.
Born: 10, Oct, 1892, Dolac, Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died: 13, Mar, 1975, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Prize motivation: "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1958 and 1961?

Answer: Frederick Sanger

Answer: Jaroslav Heyrovsky

Answer: Willard F. Libby

Answer: Melvin Calvin

Frederick Sanger
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958.
Born: 13, Aug, 1918, Rendcombe, United Kingdom
Died: 19, Nov, 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his work on the structure of proteins especially that of insulin"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1

Jaroslav Heyrovsky
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959.
Born: 20, Dec, 1890, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died: 27, Mar, 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Prize motivation: "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Prize share: 1/1

Willard F. Libby
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960.
Born: 17, Dec, 1908, Grand Valley CO, USA
Died: 8, Sep, 1980, Los Angeles CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology geology geophysics and other branches of science"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Melvin Calvin
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961.
Born: 8, Apr, 1911, St. Paul MN, USA
Died: 8, Jan, 1997, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1958 and 1961?

Answer: Georges Pire

Answer: Philip Noel-Baker

Answer: Albert Lutuli

Answer: Dag Hammarskjöld

Georges Pire
The Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
Born: 10, Feb, 1910, Dinant, Belgium
Died: 30, Jan, 1969, Leuven, Belgium
Prize motivation: "for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity"

Philip Noel-Baker
The Nobel Peace Prize 1959.
Born: 1, Nov, 1889, London, United Kingdom
Died: 8, Oct, 1982, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his longstanding contribution to the cause of disarmament and peace"

Albert Lutuli
The Nobel Peace Prize 1960.
Born: 1898, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Died: 21, Jul, 1967, Stanger, South Africa
Prize motivation: "for his non-violent struggle against apartheid"

Dag Hammarskjöld
The Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
Born: 29, Jul, 1905, Jönköping, Sweden
Died: 18, Sep, 1961, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
Prize motivation: "for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organization capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1958 and 1961?

Answer: Edward Tatum

Answer: Joshua Lederberg

Answer: George Beadle

Answer: Arthur Kornberg

Answer: Severo Ochoa

Answer: Peter Medawar

Answer: Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Answer: Georg von Békésy

Edward Tatum
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 14, Dec, 1909, Boulder CO, USA
Died: 5, Nov, 1975, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/4

Joshua Lederberg
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 23, May, 1925, Montclair NJ, USA
Died: 2, Feb, 2008, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, USA
Prize share: 1/2

George Beadle
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.
Born: 22, Oct, 1903, Wahoo NE, USA
Died: 9, Jun, 1989, Pomona CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena CA, USA
Prize share: 1/4

Arthur Kornberg
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
Born: 3, Mar, 1918, Brooklyn NY, USA
Died: 26, Oct, 2007, Stanford CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Severo Ochoa
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
Born: 24, Sep, 1905, Luarca, Spain
Died: 1, Nov, 1993, Madrid, Spain
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Affiliation at the time of the award: New York University College of Medicine, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Peter Medawar
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1960.
Born: 28, Feb, 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2, Oct, 1987, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1960.
Born: 3, Sep, 1899, Traralgon, Australia
Died: 31, Aug, 1985, Melbourne, Australia
Prize motivation: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Prize share: 1/2

Georg von Békésy
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1961.
Born: 3, Jun, 1899, Budapest, Hungary
Died: 13, Jun, 1972, Honolulu HI, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1958 and 1961?

Answer: Il´ja M. Frank

Answer: Igor Y. Tamm

Answer: Pavel A. Cherenkov

Answer: Owen Chamberlain

Answer: Emilio Segrè

Answer: Donald A. Glaser

Answer: Rudolf Mössbauer

Answer: Robert Hofstadter

Il´ja M. Frank
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 23, Oct, 1908, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia
Died: 22, Jun, 1990, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Igor Y. Tamm
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 8, Jul, 1895, Vladivostok, Russia
Died: 12, Apr, 1971, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Pavel A. Cherenkov
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
Born: 28, Jul, 1904, Novaya Chigla, Russia
Died: 6, Jan, 1990, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/3

Owen Chamberlain
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959.
Born: 10, Jul, 1920, San Francisco CA, USA
Died: 28, Feb, 2006, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Emilio Segrè
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959.
Born: 1, Feb, 1905, Tivoli, Italy
Died: 22, Apr, 1989, Lafayette CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Donald A. Glaser
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960.
Born: 21, Sep, 1926, Cleveland OH, USA
Died: 28, Feb, 2013, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for the invention of the bubble chamber"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Rudolf Mössbauer
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961.
Born: 31, Jan, 1929, Munich, Germany
Died: 14, Sep, 2011
Prize motivation: "for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Technical University, Munich, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Robert Hofstadter
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961.
Born: 5, Feb, 1915, New York NY, USA
Died: 17, Nov, 1990, Stanford CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1959 and 1962?

Answer: Salvatore Quasimodo

Answer: Saint-John Perse

Answer: Ivo Andric

Answer: John Steinbeck

Salvatore Quasimodo
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1959.
Born: 20, Aug, 1901, Modica, Italy
Died: 14, Jun, 1968, Naples, Italy
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"
Prize share: 1/1

Saint-John Perse
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
Born: 31, May, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Island
Died: 20, Sep, 1975, Presqu'île-de-Giens, France
Prize motivation: "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"
Prize share: 1/1

Ivo Andric
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961.
Born: 10, Oct, 1892, Dolac, Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died: 13, Mar, 1975, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Prize motivation: "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"
Prize share: 1/1

John Steinbeck
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962.
Born: 27, Feb, 1902, Salinas CA, USA
Died: 20, Dec, 1968, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1959 and 1962?

Answer: Jaroslav Heyrovsky

Answer: Willard F. Libby

Answer: Melvin Calvin

Answer: John C. Kendrew

Answer: Max F. Perutz

Jaroslav Heyrovsky
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959.
Born: 20, Dec, 1890, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died: 27, Mar, 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Prize motivation: "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Prize share: 1/1

Willard F. Libby
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960.
Born: 17, Dec, 1908, Grand Valley CO, USA
Died: 8, Sep, 1980, Los Angeles CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology geology geophysics and other branches of science"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Melvin Calvin
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961.
Born: 8, Apr, 1911, St. Paul MN, USA
Died: 8, Jan, 1997, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

John C. Kendrew
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
Born: 24, Mar, 1917, Oxford, United Kingdom
Died: 23, Aug, 1997, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Max F. Perutz
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
Born: 19, May, 1914, Vienna, Austria
Died: 6, Feb, 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1959 and 1962?

Answer: Philip Noel-Baker

Answer: Albert Lutuli

Answer: Dag Hammarskjöld

Answer: Linus Pauling

Philip Noel-Baker
The Nobel Peace Prize 1959.
Born: 1, Nov, 1889, London, United Kingdom
Died: 8, Oct, 1982, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his longstanding contribution to the cause of disarmament and peace"

Albert Lutuli
The Nobel Peace Prize 1960.
Born: 1898, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Died: 21, Jul, 1967, Stanger, South Africa
Prize motivation: "for his non-violent struggle against apartheid"

Dag Hammarskjöld
The Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
Born: 29, Jul, 1905, Jönköping, Sweden
Died: 18, Sep, 1961, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
Prize motivation: "for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organization capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter"

Linus Pauling
The Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
Born: 28, Feb, 1901, Portland OR, USA
Died: 19, Aug, 1994, Big Sur CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1959 and 1962?

Answer: Arthur Kornberg

Answer: Severo Ochoa

Answer: Peter Medawar

Answer: Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Answer: Georg von Békésy

Answer: Maurice Wilkins

Answer: James Watson

Answer: Francis Crick

Arthur Kornberg
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
Born: 3, Mar, 1918, Brooklyn NY, USA
Died: 26, Oct, 2007, Stanford CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Severo Ochoa
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
Born: 24, Sep, 1905, Luarca, Spain
Died: 1, Nov, 1993, Madrid, Spain
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Affiliation at the time of the award: New York University College of Medicine, New York NY, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Peter Medawar
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1960.
Born: 28, Feb, 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2, Oct, 1987, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1960.
Born: 3, Sep, 1899, Traralgon, Australia
Died: 31, Aug, 1985, Melbourne, Australia
Prize motivation: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Prize share: 1/2

Georg von Békésy
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1961.
Born: 3, Jun, 1899, Budapest, Hungary
Died: 13, Jun, 1972, Honolulu HI, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Maurice Wilkins
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 15, Dec, 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand
Died: 5, Oct, 2004, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: London University, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

James Watson
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 6, Apr, 1928, Chicago IL, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Francis Crick
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 8, Jun, 1916, Northampton, United Kingdom
Died: 28, Jul, 2004, San Diego CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1959 and 1962?

Answer: Owen Chamberlain

Answer: Emilio Segrè

Answer: Donald A. Glaser

Answer: Rudolf Mössbauer

Answer: Robert Hofstadter

Answer: Lev Landau

Owen Chamberlain
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959.
Born: 10, Jul, 1920, San Francisco CA, USA
Died: 28, Feb, 2006, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Emilio Segrè
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959.
Born: 1, Feb, 1905, Tivoli, Italy
Died: 22, Apr, 1989, Lafayette CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Donald A. Glaser
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960.
Born: 21, Sep, 1926, Cleveland OH, USA
Died: 28, Feb, 2013, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for the invention of the bubble chamber"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Rudolf Mössbauer
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961.
Born: 31, Jan, 1929, Munich, Germany
Died: 14, Sep, 2011
Prize motivation: "for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Technical University, Munich, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Robert Hofstadter
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961.
Born: 5, Feb, 1915, New York NY, USA
Died: 17, Nov, 1990, Stanford CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Lev Landau
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962.
Born: 22, Jan, 1908, Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan)
Died: 1, Apr, 1968, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter especially liquid helium"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1960 and 1963?

Answer: Saint-John Perse

Answer: Ivo Andric

Answer: John Steinbeck

Answer: Giorgos Seferis

Saint-John Perse
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
Born: 31, May, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Island
Died: 20, Sep, 1975, Presqu'île-de-Giens, France
Prize motivation: "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"
Prize share: 1/1

Ivo Andric
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961.
Born: 10, Oct, 1892, Dolac, Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died: 13, Mar, 1975, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Prize motivation: "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"
Prize share: 1/1

John Steinbeck
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962.
Born: 27, Feb, 1902, Salinas CA, USA
Died: 20, Dec, 1968, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"
Prize share: 1/1

Giorgos Seferis
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1963.
Born: 13, Mar, 1900, Smyrna (now Izmir), Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
Died: 20, Sep, 1971, Athens, Greece
Prize motivation: "for his eminent lyrical writing inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1960 and 1963?

Answer: Willard F. Libby

Answer: Melvin Calvin

Answer: John C. Kendrew

Answer: Max F. Perutz

Answer: Karl Ziegler

Answer: Giulio Natta

Willard F. Libby
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960.
Born: 17, Dec, 1908, Grand Valley CO, USA
Died: 8, Sep, 1980, Los Angeles CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology geology geophysics and other branches of science"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Melvin Calvin
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961.
Born: 8, Apr, 1911, St. Paul MN, USA
Died: 8, Jan, 1997, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

John C. Kendrew
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
Born: 24, Mar, 1917, Oxford, United Kingdom
Died: 23, Aug, 1997, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Max F. Perutz
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
Born: 19, May, 1914, Vienna, Austria
Died: 6, Feb, 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Karl Ziegler
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963.
Born: 26, Nov, 1898, Helsa, Germany
Died: 12, Aug, 1973, Mülheim, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Giulio Natta
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963.
Born: 26, Feb, 1903, Imperia, Italy
Died: 2, May, 1979, Bergamo, Italy
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute of Technology, Milan, Italy
Prize share: 1/2


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1960 and 1963?

Answer: Albert Lutuli

Answer: Dag Hammarskjöld

Answer: Linus Pauling

Answer: International Committee of the Red Cross

Answer: League of Red Cross Societies

Albert Lutuli
The Nobel Peace Prize 1960.
Born: 1898, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Died: 21, Jul, 1967, Stanger, South Africa
Prize motivation: "for his non-violent struggle against apartheid"

Dag Hammarskjöld
The Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
Born: 29, Jul, 1905, Jönköping, Sweden
Died: 18, Sep, 1961, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
Prize motivation: "for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organization capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter"

Linus Pauling
The Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
Born: 28, Feb, 1901, Portland OR, USA
Died: 19, Aug, 1994, Big Sur CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West"

International Committee of the Red Cross
The Nobel Peace Prize 1963.
Founded: 1863
Prize motivation: "for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN"

League of Red Cross Societies
The Nobel Peace Prize 1963.
Founded: 1919
Prize motivation: "for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1960 and 1963?

Answer: Peter Medawar

Answer: Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Answer: Georg von Békésy

Answer: Maurice Wilkins

Answer: James Watson

Answer: Francis Crick

Answer: Andrew Huxley

Answer: Alan Hodgkin

Answer: Sir John Eccles

Peter Medawar
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1960.
Born: 28, Feb, 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2, Oct, 1987, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1960.
Born: 3, Sep, 1899, Traralgon, Australia
Died: 31, Aug, 1985, Melbourne, Australia
Prize motivation: "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Prize share: 1/2

Georg von Békésy
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1961.
Born: 3, Jun, 1899, Budapest, Hungary
Died: 13, Jun, 1972, Honolulu HI, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Maurice Wilkins
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 15, Dec, 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand
Died: 5, Oct, 2004, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: London University, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

James Watson
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 6, Apr, 1928, Chicago IL, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Francis Crick
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 8, Jun, 1916, Northampton, United Kingdom
Died: 28, Jul, 2004, San Diego CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

Andrew Huxley
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
Born: 22, Nov, 1917, Hampstead, United Kingdom
Died: 30, May, 2012, Grantchester, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

Alan Hodgkin
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
Born: 5, Feb, 1914, Banbury, United Kingdom
Died: 20, Dec, 1998, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

Sir John Eccles
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
Born: 27, Jan, 1903, Melbourne, Australia
Died: 2, May, 1997, Contra, Switzerland
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Prize share: 1/3


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1960 and 1963?

Answer: Donald A. Glaser

Answer: Rudolf Mössbauer

Answer: Robert Hofstadter

Answer: Lev Landau

Answer: J. Hans D. Jensen

Answer: Eugene Wigner

Answer: Maria Goeppert Mayer

Donald A. Glaser
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960.
Born: 21, Sep, 1926, Cleveland OH, USA
Died: 28, Feb, 2013, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for the invention of the bubble chamber"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Rudolf Mössbauer
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961.
Born: 31, Jan, 1929, Munich, Germany
Died: 14, Sep, 2011
Prize motivation: "for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Technical University, Munich, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Robert Hofstadter
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961.
Born: 5, Feb, 1915, New York NY, USA
Died: 17, Nov, 1990, Stanford CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Lev Landau
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962.
Born: 22, Jan, 1908, Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan)
Died: 1, Apr, 1968, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter especially liquid helium"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR (now Russia)
Prize share: 1/1

J. Hans D. Jensen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963.
Born: 25, Jun, 1907, Hamburg, Germany
Died: 11, Feb, 1973, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Prize share: 1/4

Eugene Wigner
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963.
Born: 17, Nov, 1902, Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Died: 1, Jan, 1995, Princeton NJ, USA
Prize motivation: "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/2

Maria Goeppert Mayer
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963.
Born: 28, Jun, 1906, Kattowitz (now Katowice), Germany (now Poland)
Died: 20, Feb, 1972, San Diego CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, San Diego CA, USA
Prize share: 1/4


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1961 and 1964?

Answer: Ivo Andric

Answer: John Steinbeck

Answer: Giorgos Seferis

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre

Ivo Andric
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961.
Born: 10, Oct, 1892, Dolac, Bosnia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died: 13, Mar, 1975, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Prize motivation: "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country"
Prize share: 1/1

John Steinbeck
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962.
Born: 27, Feb, 1902, Salinas CA, USA
Died: 20, Dec, 1968, New York NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"
Prize share: 1/1

Giorgos Seferis
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1963.
Born: 13, Mar, 1900, Smyrna (now Izmir), Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
Died: 20, Sep, 1971, Athens, Greece
Prize motivation: "for his eminent lyrical writing inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture"
Prize share: 1/1

Jean-Paul Sartre
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964.
Born: 21, Jun, 1905, Paris, France
Died: 15, Apr, 1980, Paris, France
Prize motivation: "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"
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1961 and 1964?

Answer: Melvin Calvin

Answer: John C. Kendrew

Answer: Max F. Perutz

Answer: Karl Ziegler

Answer: Giulio Natta

Answer: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Melvin Calvin
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961.
Born: 8, Apr, 1911, St. Paul MN, USA
Died: 8, Jan, 1997, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley CA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

John C. Kendrew
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
Born: 24, Mar, 1917, Oxford, United Kingdom
Died: 23, Aug, 1997, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Max F. Perutz
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.
Born: 19, May, 1914, Vienna, Austria
Died: 6, Feb, 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2

Karl Ziegler
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963.
Born: 26, Nov, 1898, Helsa, Germany
Died: 12, Aug, 1973, Mülheim, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Giulio Natta
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963.
Born: 26, Feb, 1903, Imperia, Italy
Died: 2, May, 1979, Bergamo, Italy
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute of Technology, Milan, Italy
Prize share: 1/2

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964.
Born: 12, May, 1910, Cairo, Egypt
Died: 29, Jul, 1994, Shipston-on-Stour, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford Royal Society, Oxford, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/1


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Peace between 1961 and 1964?

Answer: Dag Hammarskjöld

Answer: Linus Pauling

Answer: International Committee of the Red Cross

Answer: League of Red Cross Societies

Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

Dag Hammarskjöld
The Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
Born: 29, Jul, 1905, Jönköping, Sweden
Died: 18, Sep, 1961, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
Prize motivation: "for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organization capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter"

Linus Pauling
The Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
Born: 28, Feb, 1901, Portland OR, USA
Died: 19, Aug, 1994, Big Sur CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West"

International Committee of the Red Cross
The Nobel Peace Prize 1963.
Founded: 1863
Prize motivation: "for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN"

League of Red Cross Societies
The Nobel Peace Prize 1963.
Founded: 1919
Prize motivation: "for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN"

Martin Luther King Jr.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
Born: 15, Jan, 1929, Atlanta GA, USA
Died: 4, Apr, 1968, Memphis TN, USA
Prize motivation: "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population"


Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine between 1961 and 1964?

Answer: Georg von Békésy

Answer: Maurice Wilkins

Answer: James Watson

Answer: Francis Crick

Answer: Andrew Huxley

Answer: Alan Hodgkin

Answer: Sir John Eccles

Answer: Feodor Lynen

Answer: Konrad Bloch

Georg von Békésy
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1961.
Born: 3, Jun, 1899, Budapest, Hungary
Died: 13, Jun, 1972, Honolulu HI, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/1

Maurice Wilkins
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 15, Dec, 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand
Died: 5, Oct, 2004, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: London University, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

James Watson
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 6, Apr, 1928, Chicago IL, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/3

Francis Crick
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
Born: 8, Jun, 1916, Northampton, United Kingdom
Died: 28, Jul, 2004, San Diego CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

Andrew Huxley
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
Born: 22, Nov, 1917, Hampstead, United Kingdom
Died: 30, May, 2012, Grantchester, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

Alan Hodgkin
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
Born: 5, Feb, 1914, Banbury, United Kingdom
Died: 20, Dec, 1998, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/3

Sir John Eccles
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
Born: 27, Jan, 1903, Melbourne, Australia
Died: 2, May, 1997, Contra, Switzerland
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Prize share: 1/3

Feodor Lynen
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1964.
Born: 6, Apr, 1911, Munich, Germany
Died: 6, Aug, 1979, Munich, Germany
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max-Planck-Institut für Zellchemie, Munich, Germany
Prize share: 1/2

Konrad Bloch
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1964.
Born: 21, Jan, 1912, Neisse (now Nysa), Germany (now Poland)
Died: 15, Oct, 2000, Burlington MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
Prize share: 1/2