Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
The prize was awarded jointly to: MARTIN, ARCHER JOHN PORTER, Great Britain, National Institute for Medical Research, London, b. 1910; and SYNGE, RICHARD LAURENCE MILLINGTON, Great Britain, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn (Scotland), b
Literature
MAURIAC, FRAN‚OIS, France, b. 1885, d. 1970: "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life"
Peace
SCHWEITZER, ALBERT, France, b. 1875, d. 1965: Missionary surgeon, Founder LambarŽnŽ Hospital in RŽpublique du Gabon
Physiology or Medicine
WAKSMAN, SELMAN ABRAHAM, U.S.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, b. 1888, (in Priluka, Ukraine, Russia), d. 1973: "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"
Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: BLOCH, FELIX, U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, b. 1905 (in Zurich, Switzerland), d. 1983; and PURCELL, EDWARD MILLS, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1912, d. 1997: "for their develop