Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
TODD, Lord ALEXANDER R., Great Britain, Cambridge University, b. 1907, d. 1997: "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
Literature
CAMUS, ALBERT, France, b. 1913 (in Mondovi, Algeria), d. 1960: "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
Peace
PEARSON, LESTER BOWLES, Canada, b. 1897, d. 1972: former Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada, President 7th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Physiology or Medicine
BOVET, DANIEL, Italy, Chief Institute of Public Health, Rome, b. 1907 (in Neuchatel, Switzerland), d. 1992: "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action
Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: YANG, CHEN NING, China, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., b. 1922; and LEE, TSUNG-DAO, China, Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A., b. 1926: "for their penetrating investigation of t