In 1936, 7 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 5 categories: Chemistry, Literature, Medicine, Peace, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.
Birth country: the Netherlands
Motivation: for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases
Affiliation: Berlin University - Germany; Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik - Germany
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Affiliation: National Institute for Medical Research - United Kingdom
Birth country: Germany
Motivation: for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Affiliation: Graz University - Austria
Birth country: Argentina
Motivation: for his role as father of the Argentine Antiwar Pact of 1933, which he also used as a means to mediate peace between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935
Birth country: Austria
Motivation: for his discovery of cosmic radiation
Affiliation: Innsbruck University - Austria
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for his discovery of the positron
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA
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