1944 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Otto Hahn

for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei

Literature

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style

Peace

International Committee of the Red Cross

for the great work it has performed during the war on behalf of humanity

Physics

Isidor Isaac Rabi

for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei

Physiology or Medicine

Joseph Erlanger

for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres

Herbert Spencer Gasser

for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres