Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
The prize was awarded jointly to: JOLIOT, FRƒDƒRIC, France, Institut du Radium, Paris, b. 1900, d. 1958; and his wife JOLIOT-CURIE, IRéNE, France, Institut du Radium, Paris, b. 1897, d. 1956: "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioa
Literature
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
Peace
OSSIETZKY, CARL VON, Germany, b. 1888, d. 1938: Journalist (with Die WeltbŸhne, among others), pacifist
Physiology or Medicine
SPEMANN, HANS, Germany, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, b. 1869, d. 1941: "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"
Physics
CHADWICK, Sir JAMES, Great Britain, Liverpool University, b. 1891, d. 1974: "for the discovery of the neutron"