1953 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Hermann Staudinger

for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry

Literature

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values

Peace

George Catlett Marshall

for proposing and supervising the plan for the economic recovery of Europe

Physics

Frits Zernike

for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope

Physiology or Medicine

Hans Adolf Krebs

for his discovery of the citric acid cycle

Fritz Albert Lipmann

for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism