1936 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye

for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases

Literature

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy

Peace

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

for his role as father of the Argentine Antiwar Pact of 1933, which he also used as a means to mediate peace between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935

Physics

Victor Franz Hess

for his discovery of cosmic radiation

Carl David Anderson

for his discovery of the positron

Physiology or Medicine

Sir Henry Hallett Dale

for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses

Otto Loewi

for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses