Nobel Prize Winners of 1962

In 1962, 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.

1962 - Chemistry

Max Ferdinand Perutz - Male - 48 years

Birth country: Austria

Motivation: for their studies of the structures of globular proteins

Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - United Kingdom

John Cowdery Kendrew - Male - 45 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their studies of the structures of globular proteins

Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - United Kingdom

1962 - Literature

John Steinbeck - Male - 60 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception

1962 - Medicine

Francis Harry Compton Crick - Male - 46 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material

Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - United Kingdom

James Dewey Watson - Male - 34 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins - Male - 45 years

Birth country: New Zealand

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material

Affiliation: London University - United Kingdom

1962 - Peace

Linus Carl Pauling - Male - 62 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West

Affiliation: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA

1962 - Physics

Lev Davidovich Landau - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Azerbaijan

Motivation: for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium

Affiliation: Academy of Sciences - Russia

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