1964 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances

Literature

Jean-Paul Sartre

for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age

Peace

Martin Luther King Jr.

for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population

Physics

Charles Hard Townes

for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle

Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov

for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle

Physiology or Medicine

Konrad Bloch

for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

Feodor Lynen

for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism