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1943
The 20th Century Almanac · The Forties

1943

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Allied victories mounted with the fall of Sicily, Italy's surrender, and the German rout at Kursk and Stalingrad. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin conferred at Tehran, and wartime romance Casablanca won Best Picture.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
Nobel · Literature
The Prize Money Was With 1/3 Allocated T
World Series
New York Yankees vs. ST. Louis Cardinals
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Paul Lukas

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1943

Champions

NCAA FootballNotre Dame Record: 9-1-0
Heisman TrophyAngelo Bertelli, notre dame, QB points: 648
Stanley CupDetroit Red Wings vs. Boston Bruins Series: 4-0
World SeriesNew York Yankees vs. ST. Louis Cardinals Series: 4-1

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. Arsenic and Old Lace
  2. Cover Girl
  3. Destination Tokyo
  4. Dragon Seed
  5. For Whom The Bell Tolls
  6. The Gang's All Here
  7. Girl Crazy
  8. Going My Way
  9. Guadalcanal Diary
  10. A Guy Named Joe

Academy Awards

Honoring 1943
Best Picture
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
Best Director
Michael Curtiz
Casablanca
Best Actor
Paul Lukas
Watch on the Rhine
Best Actress
Jennifer Jones
The Song of Bernadette

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
DE HEVESY, GEORGE, Hungary, Stockholm University, Sweden, b. 1885, d. 1966: "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
Literature
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
Peace
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was divided equally between: DAM, HENRIK CARL PETER, Denmark, Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen, b. 1895, d. 1976: "for his discovery of vitamin K"; and DOISY, EDWARD ADELBERT, U.S.A., Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, b. 189
Physics
STERN, OTTO, U.S.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, PA, b. 1888 (in Sorau, then Germany), d. 1969: "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Thornton Wilder ... "The Skin of Our Teeth"
Fiction
Upton Sinclair ... "Dragon's Teeth"
History
Esther Forbes ... "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In" International Reporting: Ira Wolfert ... "North American Newspaper Alliance"
Public Service
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