Nobel Prize Winners of 1931

In 1931, 6 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 4 categories: Chemistry, Literature, Medicine, Peace. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.

1931 - Chemistry

Carl Bosch - Male - 57 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods

Affiliation: University of Heidelberg - Germany; I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. - Germany

Friedrich Bergius - Male - 47 years

Birth country: Poland

Motivation: in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods

Affiliation: University of Heidelberg - Germany; I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. - Germany

1931 - Literature

Erik Axel Karlfeldt - Male - 67 years

Birth country: Sweden

Motivation: The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt

1931 - Medicine

Otto Heinrich Warburg - Male - 48 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme

Affiliation: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Biologie - Germany

1931 - Peace

Jane Addams - Female - 71 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind

Nicholas Murray Butler - Male - 69 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind

Affiliation: Columbia University - USA

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