Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
HEYROVSKY, JAROSLAV, Czechoslovakia, Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, b. 1890, d. 1967: "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
Literature
QUASIMODO, SALVATORE, Italy, b. 1901, d. 1968: "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"
Peace
NOEL-BAKER, PHILIP J., Great Britain, b. 1889, d. 1982: Member of Parliament, life long ardent worker for international peace and co-operation
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: OCHOA, SEVERO, U.S.A., New York University, College of
Medicine
, New York, NY, b. 1905 (in Luarca, Spain), d. 1993; and KORNBERG, ARTHUR, U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, b. 1918: "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: SEGRE, EMILIO GINO, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1905 (in Tivoli, Italy), d. 1989; and CHAMBERLAIN, OWEN, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1920: "for their discovery
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama
Archibald MacLeish ... "J.B."
Fiction
Robert Lewis Taylor ... "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters"
History
Leonard D. White & Jean Schneider ... "The Republican Era, 1869-1901" International Reporting: Joseph Martin & Philip Santora ... "New York Daily News" National Reporting: Howard Van Smith ... "Miami News"
Public Service
"Utica Observer Dispatch" & "Utica Daily Press" (NY)