In 1938, 5 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: Austria
Motivation: for his work on carotenoids and vitamins
Affiliation: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck Institut) für Medizinische Forschung - Germany; University of Heidelberg - Germany
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces
Birth country: Belgium
Motivation: for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration
Affiliation: Ghent University - Belgium
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Motivation: for having carried on the work of Fridtjof Nansen to the benefit of refugees across Europe
Birth country: Italy
Motivation: for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons
Affiliation: Rome University - Italy
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