Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
KUHN, RICHARD, Germany, Heidelberg University and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) fŸr medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, b. 1900 (in Vienna,Austria), d. 1967: "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins" (Caused by the
Literature
BUCK, PEARL (pen-name of WALSH, PEARL, nŽe SYDENSTRICKER), U.S.A., b. 1892, d. 1973: "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"
Peace
OFFICE INTERNATIONAL NANSEN POUR LES RƒFUGIƒS (NANSEN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE FOR REFUGEES) an international relief organization in Geneva started by Fridtjof Nansen in 1921
Physiology or Medicine
HEYMANS, CORNEILLE JEAN FRAN‚OIS, Belgium, Ghent University, b. 1892, d. 1968: "for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration"
Physics
FERMI, ENRICO, Italy, Rome University, b. 1901, d. 1954: "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons