Nobel Prize Winners of 1953

In 1953, 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.

1953 - Chemistry

Hermann Staudinger - Male - 72 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry

Affiliation: University of Freiburg - Germany; Staatliches Institut für makromolekulare Chemie (State Research Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry), Freiburg - Germany

1953 - Literature

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - Male - 78 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values

1953 - Medicine

Hans Adolf Krebs - Male - 53 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for his discovery of the citric acid cycle

Affiliation: Sheffield University - United Kingdom

Fritz Albert Lipmann - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism

Affiliation: Harvard Medical School - USA; Massachusetts General Hospital - USA

1953 - Peace

George Catlett Marshall - Male - 72 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for proposing and supervising the plan for the economic recovery of Europe

1953 - Physics

Frits Zernike - Male - 65 years

Birth country: the Netherlands

Motivation: for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope

Affiliation: Groningen University - the Netherlands

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