1932 - Chemistry
Irving Langmuir - Male - 51 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry
Affiliation: General Electric Company - USA
Nobel Prize Winners of 1932
In 1932, 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.
1932 - Literature
John Galsworthy - Male - 65 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in <I>The Forsyte Saga</I>
1932 - Medicine
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington - Male - 74 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons
Affiliation: University of Oxford - United Kingdom
Edgar Douglas Adrian - Male - 42 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons
Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom
1932 - Physics
Werner Karl Heisenberg - Male - 31 years
Birth country: Germany
Motivation: for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen
Affiliation: Leipzig University - Germany
