1948 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius

for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins

Literature

Thomas Stearns Eliot

for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry

Peace

Physics

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation

Physiology or Medicine

Paul Hermann Müller

for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods