In 1954, 8 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: USA
Motivation: for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in <I>The Old Man and the Sea,</I> and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue
Affiliation: Harvard Medical School - USA; Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Medical Center - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue
Affiliation: Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Medical Center - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue
Affiliation: Western Reserve University - USA
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Motivation: for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world
Birth country: Poland
Motivation: for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction
Affiliation: Edinburgh University - United Kingdom
Birth country: Germany
Motivation: for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith
Affiliation: University of Heidelberg - Germany; Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung - Germany
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