1957 - Chemistry
Lord (Alexander R.) Todd - Male - 50 years
Birth country: Scotland
Motivation: for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes
Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom
Nobel Prize Winners of 1957
In 1957, 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.
1957 - Literature
Albert Camus - Male - 43 years
Birth country: Algeria
Motivation: for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times
1957 - Medicine
Daniel Bovet - Male - 50 years
Birth country: Switzerland
Motivation: for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles
Affiliation: Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Chief Institute of Public Health) - Italy
1957 - Peace
Lester Bowles Pearson - Male - 60 years
Birth country: Canada
Motivation: for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis
1957 - Physics
Chen Ning Yang - Male - 35 years
Birth country: China
Motivation: for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles
Affiliation: Institute for Advanced Study - USA
Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee - Male - 30 years
Birth country: China
Motivation: for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles
Affiliation: Columbia University - USA
