Nobel Prize Winners of 1958

Frederick Sanger - Male - 40 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin

Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak - Male - 68 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition

George Wells Beadle - Male - 55 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events

Affiliation: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA

Edward Lawrie Tatum - Male - 48 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events

Affiliation: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research - USA

Joshua Lederberg - Male - 33 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria

Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - USA

Georges Pire - Male - 48 years

Birth country: Belgium

Motivation: for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect

Affiliation: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute - Russia

Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank - Male - 50 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect

Affiliation: Lomonosov Moscow State University - Russia; P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute - Russia

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Male - 63 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect

Affiliation: Lomonosov Moscow State University - Russia; P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute - Russia