Nobel Prize Winners of 1923

In 1923, 5 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 4 categories: Chemistry, Literature, Medicine, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.

1923 - Chemistry

Fritz Pregl - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Slovenia

Motivation: for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances

Affiliation: Graz University - Austria

1923 - Literature

William Butler Yeats - Male - 58 years

Birth country: Ireland

Motivation: for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation

1923 - Medicine

Frederick Grant Banting - Male - 31 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: for the discovery of insulin

Affiliation: University of Toronto - Canada

John James Rickard Macleod - Male - 47 years

Birth country: Scotland

Motivation: for the discovery of insulin

Affiliation: University of Toronto - Canada

1923 - Physics

Robert Andrews Millikan - Male - 55 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect

Affiliation: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA

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