Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
DU VIGNEAUD, VINCENT, U.S.A., Cornell University, New York, NY, b. 1901, d. 1978: "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"
Literature
LAXNESS, HALLD”R KILJAN, Iceland, b. 1902, d. 1998: "for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"
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
THEORELL, AXEL HUGO THEODOR, Sweden, Nobel Medical Institute, Stockholm, b. 1903, d. 1982: "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"
Physics
The prize was divided equally between: LAMB, WILLIS EUGENE, U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, b. 1913: "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"; and KUSCH, POLYKARP, U.S.A., Columbia University,
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama
Tennessee Williams ... "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Fiction
William Faulkner ... "A Fable"
History
Paul Horgan ... "Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History" International Reporing: Harrison E. Salisbury ... "New York Times" National Reporting: Anthony Lewis ... "Washington Daily News"
Public Service
"Columbus (GA) Ledger" & "Sunday Ledger-Inquirer"