Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
DE HEVESY, GEORGE, Hungary, Stockholm University, Sweden, b. 1885, d. 1966: "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
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
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was divided equally between: DAM, HENRIK CARL PETER, Denmark, Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen, b. 1895, d. 1976: "for his discovery of vitamin K"; and DOISY, EDWARD ADELBERT, U.S.A., Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, b. 189
Physics
STERN, OTTO, U.S.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, PA, b. 1888 (in Sorau, then Germany), d. 1969: "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama
Thornton Wilder ... "The Skin of Our Teeth"
Fiction
Upton Sinclair ... "Dragon's Teeth"
History
Esther Forbes ... "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In" International Reporting: Ira Wolfert ... "North American Newspaper Alliance"
Public Service
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