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1932

Nobel Prize Winners

5 laureates honored across 4 categories in the 32nd Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
5
Categories
04
Countries
03
Ceremony
32nd Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

1 Laureate

Werner Heisenberg

Germany

for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen

Chemistry

1 Laureate

Irving Langmuir

United States

for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

Literature

1 Laureate

John Galsworthy

United Kingdom

for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in <I>The Forsyte Saga</I>

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