1950 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Otto Paul Hermann Diels

for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis

Kurt Alder

for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis

Literature

Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell

in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought

Peace

Ralph Bunche

for his work as mediator in Palestine in 1948-1949

Physics

Cecil Frank Powell

for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method

Physiology or Medicine

Edward Calvin Kendall

for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects

Tadeus Reichstein

for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects

Philip Showalter Hench

for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects