1938 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Richard Kuhn

for his work on carotenoids and vitamins

Literature

Pearl Buck

for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces

Peace

Nansen International Office for Refugees

for having carried on the work of Fridtjof Nansen to the benefit of refugees across Europe

Physics

Enrico Fermi

for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons

Physiology or Medicine

Corneille Jean François Heymans

for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration