1947 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Sir Robert Robinson

for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids

Literature

André Paul Guillaume Gide

for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight

Peace

Friends Service Council

for their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations

American Friends Service Committee

for their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations

Physics

Sir Edward Victor Appleton

for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer

Physiology or Medicine

Carl Ferdinand Cori

for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen

Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz

for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen

Bernardo Alberto Houssay

for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar