Tuesday, 20 May 2025

1966, Nobel Prizes (Oslo, Norway, 1966)

The Nobel Prize in Physics: Alfred Kastler (France)

For the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms.

Alfred Kastler

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Robert S. Mulliken (USA)

For his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method.

Robert S. Mulliken

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Charles Brenton Huggins (USA) for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer.
Peyton Rous (USA) for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses.

Charles Brenton Huggins
Peyton Rous

The Nobel Prize in Literature

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people.
Nelly Sachs (Germany / Sweden) for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Nelly Sachs

The Nobel Peace Prize

No Nobel Prize was awarded in 1966.

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