Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
WINDAUS, ADOLF OTTO REINHOLD, Germany, Goettingen University, b. 1876, d. 1959: "for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins"
Literature
UNDSET, SIGRID, Norway, b. 1882 (in Kalundborg, Denmark), d. 1949: "principially for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages"
Peace
The prize money for 1928 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
Physiology or Medicine
NICOLLE, CHARLES JULES HENRI, France, Institut Pasteur, Tunis, b. 1866, d. 1936: "for his work on typhus"
Physics
RICHARDSON, Sir OWEN WILLANS, Great Britain, London University, b. 1879, d. 1959: "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him"