1920 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Walther Hermann Nernst

in recognition of his work in thermochemistry

Literature

Knut Pedersen Hamsun

for his monumental work, <I>Growth of the Soil</I>

Peace

Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

for his longstanding contribution to the cause of peace and justice and his prominent role in the establishment of the League of Nations

Physics

Charles Edouard Guillaume

in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys

Physiology or Medicine

Schack August Steenberg Krogh

for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism