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1955

Nobel Prize Winners

5 laureates honored across 4 categories in the 55th Nobel Prize ceremony.

Total Laureates
5
Categories
04
Countries
03
Ceremony
55th Ceremony
Stockholm & Oslo

Physics

2 Laureates

Chemistry

1 Laureate

Vincent du Vigneaud

United States

for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone

Physiology or Medicine

Hugo Theorell

Sweden

for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes

Literature

1 Laureate

Halldór Laxness

Iceland

for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland

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