Nobel Prize Winners of 1928

In 1928, 4 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.

1928 - Chemistry

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus - Male - 51 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins

Affiliation: Goettingen University - Germany

1928 - Literature

Sigrid Undset - Female - 46 years

Birth country: Denmark

Motivation: principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages

1928 - Medicine

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle - Male - 62 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for his work on typhus

Affiliation: Institut Pasteur - Tunisia

1928 - Physics

Owen Willans Richardson - Male - 50 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him

Affiliation: London University - United Kingdom

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