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All Nobel Prizes (1922-1927): 1927 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 Arthur Holly Compton "for his discovery of the effect named after him" Charles Thomson Rees Wilson "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1927 Heinrich Otto Wieland "for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927 Julius Wagner-Jauregg "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1927 Henri Bergson "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented" The Nobel Peace Prize 1927 Ferdinand Buisson Ludwig Quidde 1926 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926 The (Theodor) Svedberg "for his work on disperse systems" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1926 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 Grazia Deledda "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general" The Nobel Peace Prize 1926 Aristide Briand Gustav Stresemann 1925 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 James FranckandGustav Ludwig Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy "for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1925 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 George Bernard Shaw "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty" The Nobel Peace Prize 1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain Charles Gates Dawes 1924 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1924 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1924 Willem Einthoven "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont "for his great national epic, The Peasants" The Nobel Peace Prize 1924 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. 1923 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 Robert Andrews Millikan "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923 Fritz Pregl "for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923 Frederick Grant BantingandJohn James Rickard Macleod "for the discovery of insulin" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation" The Nobel Peace Prize 1923 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. 1922 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 Niels Henrik David Bohr "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922 Francis William Aston "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1922 Archibald Vivian Hill "for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle" Otto Fritz Meyerhof "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 Jacinto Benavente "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama" The Nobel Peace Prize 1922 Fridtjof Nansen