Nobel Prize Winners of 1961

Melvin Calvin - Male - 50 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants

Affiliation: University of California - USA

Ivo Andrić - Male - 69 years

Birth country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Motivation: for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country

Georg von Békésy - Male - 62 years

Birth country: Hungary

Motivation: for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld - Male - 56 years

Birth country: Sweden

Motivation: for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organization, capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter

Robert Hofstadter - Male - 46 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer - Male - 32 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name

Affiliation: Technical University - Germany; California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA