1963 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Karl Ziegler

for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers

Giulio Natta

for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers

Literature

Giorgos Seferis

for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture

Peace

International Committee of the Red Cross

for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN

League of Red Cross Societies

for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN

Physics

Eugene Paul Wigner

for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles

Maria Goeppert Mayer

for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure

J. Hans D. Jensen

for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure

Physiology or Medicine

Sir John Carew Eccles

for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane

Andrew Fielding Huxley

for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane