In 1949, 6 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: Canada
Motivation: for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures
Affiliation: University of California - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel
Birth country: Switzerland
Motivation: for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs
Affiliation: University of Zurich - Switzerland
Birth country: Portugal
Motivation: for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses
Affiliation: University of Lisbon - Portugal; Neurological Institute - Portugal
Birth country: Scotland
Motivation: for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war
Birth country: Japan
Motivation: for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces
Affiliation: Columbia University - USA; Kyoto University - Japan
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