Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
ROBINSON, Sir ROBERT, Great Britain, Oxford University, b. 1886, d. 1975: "for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids"
Literature
GIDE, ANDRƒ PAUL GUILLAUME, France, b. 1869, d. 1951: "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight"
Peace
The prize was awarded jointly to: THE FRIENDS SERVICE COUNCIL (The Quakers), London. Founded in 1647. THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (The Quakers), Washington. The society's first official meeting was held in 1672
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was divided, one half being awarded jointly to: CORI, CARL FERDINAND, U.S.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, b. 1896, (in Prague, then Austria), d. 1984; and his wife CORI, GERTY THERESA, nŽe RADNITZ, U.S.A., Washingto
Medicine
), Buenos Aires, b. 1887, d. 1971: "for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"
Physics
APPLETON, Sir EDWARD VICTOR, Great Britain, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, London, b. 1892, d. 1965: "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton la