1957 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Lord (Alexander R.) Todd

for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes

Literature

Albert Camus

for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times

Peace

Lester Bowles Pearson

for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis

Physics

Chen Ning Yang

for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles

Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee

for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles

Physiology or Medicine

Daniel Bovet

for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles