1955 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Vincent du Vigneaud

for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone

Literature

Halldór Kiljan Laxness

for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland

Peace

Physics

Willis Eugene Lamb

for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum

Polykarp Kusch

for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron

Physiology or Medicine

Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell

for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes