All Nobel Prizes (1928-1934):
1934
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1934
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934
Harold Clayton Urey
"for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934
George Hoyt Whipple,George Richards MinotandWilliam Parry Murphy
"for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1934
Luigi Pirandello
"for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1934
Arthur Henderson
1933
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
Erwin SchrödingerandPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac
"for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1933
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933
Thomas Hunt Morgan
"for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1933
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
"for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1933
Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
1932
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
Werner Karl Heisenberg
"for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932
Irving Langmuir
"for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932
Sir Charles Scott SherringtonandEdgar Douglas Adrian
"for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1932
John Galsworthy
"for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga
"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1932
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1931
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1931
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1931
Carl BoschandFriedrich Bergius
"in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931
Otto Heinrich Warburg
"for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
"The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1931
Jane Addams
Nicholas Murray Butler
1930
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
"for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1930
Hans Fischer
"for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930
Karl Landsteiner
"for his discovery of human blood groups"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930
Sinclair Lewis
"for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1930
Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
1929
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
"for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929
Arthur HardenandHans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
"for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929
Christiaan Eijkman
"for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin"
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
"for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1929
Thomas Mann
"principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1929
Frank Billings Kellogg
1928
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928
Owen Willans Richardson
"for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
"for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1928
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
"for his work on typhus"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1928
Sigrid Undset
"principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages"
The Nobel Peace Prize 1928
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.