Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
GIAUQUE, WILLIAM FRANCIS, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1895, d. 1982: "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"
Literature
FAULKNER, WILLIAM, U.S.A., b. 1897, d. 1962: "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was divided equally between: HESS, WALTER RUDOLF, Switzerland, Zurich University, b. 1881, d. 1973: "for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs"; an
Physics
YUKAWA, HIDEKI, Japan, Kyoto Imperial University and Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A., b. 1907, d. 1981: "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"