Nobel Prize Winners of 1964

In 1964, 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.

1964 - Chemistry

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Female - 54 years

Birth country: Egypt

Motivation: for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances

Affiliation: University of Oxford, Royal Society - United Kingdom

1964 - Literature

Jean-Paul Sartre - Male - 59 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age

1964 - Medicine

Konrad Bloch - Male - 52 years

Birth country: Poland

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Feodor Lynen - Male - 53 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Zellchemie - Germany

1964 - Peace

Martin Luther King Jr. - Male - 35 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population

1964 - Physics

Charles Hard Townes - Male - 49 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov - Male - 41 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle

Affiliation: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute - Russia

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov - Male - 48 years

Birth country: Australia

Motivation: for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle

Affiliation: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute - Russia

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