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1928

Nobel Prize Winners

4 laureates honored across 4 categories in the 28th Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
4
Categories
04
Countries
04
Ceremony
28th Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

1 Laureate

Owen Willans Richardson

United Kingdom

for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him

Chemistry

1 Laureate

Adolf Windaus

Germany

for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins

Physiology or Medicine

Charles Nicolle

France

for his work on typhus

Literature

1 Laureate

Sigrid Undset

Norway

principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages

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