Nobel Prize Winners of 1956

In 1956, 9 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 4 categories: Chemistry, Literature, Medicine, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.

1956 - Chemistry

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood - Male - 59 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions

Affiliation: University of Oxford - United Kingdom

Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov - Male - 60 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions

Affiliation: Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR - Russia; Lomonosov Moscow State University - Russia

1956 - Literature

Juan Ramón Jiménez - Male - 74 years

Birth country: Spain

Motivation: for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity

1956 - Medicine

André Frédéric Cournand - Male - 61 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system

Affiliation: Columbia University Division, Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory, Bellevue Hospital - USA

Werner Forssmann - Male - 52 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system

Affiliation: Mainz University - Germany

Dickinson W. Richards - Male - 60 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system

Affiliation: Columbia University - USA

1956 - Physics

William Bradford Shockley - Male - 46 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect

Affiliation: Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, Inc. - USA

John Bardeen - Male - 48 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect

Affiliation: University of Illinois - USA

Walter Houser Brattain - Male - 54 years

Birth country: China

Motivation: for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect

Affiliation: Bell Telephone Laboratories - USA

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