1927 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Heinrich Otto Wieland

for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances

Literature

Henri Bergson

in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented

Peace

Ferdinand Buisson

for their contribution to the emergence in France and Germany of a public opinion which favours peaceful international cooperation

Ludwig Quidde

for their contribution to the emergence in France and Germany of a public opinion which favours peaceful international cooperation

Physics

Arthur Holly Compton

for his discovery of the effect named after him

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour

Physiology or Medicine

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica