Awards & Winners

1949 Nobel Prize

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Nobel Prize in Literature

William Faulkner

(for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Albert Camus
Alberto Moravia
Alfonso Reyes
André Malraux
Angelos Sikelianos
Arnulf Øverland
Benedetto Croce
Boris Pasternak
Carl Sandburg
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Enrique González Martínez
Eugène Baie
François Mauriac
George Santayana
Georges Duhamel
Halldór Laxness
Hans Carossa
Henriette Charasson
Jacinto Grau
Johan Falkberget
John Steinbeck
Leonid Leonov
Marie Under
Mark Aldanov
Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Pär Lagerkvist
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Reinaldo Temprano Azcona
Riccardo Bacchelli
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Seán O'Casey
Taha Hussein
Thornton Wilder
William Faulkner
Winston Churchill
Nobel Prize in Physics

Hideki Yukawa

(for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Walter Rudolf Hess

(for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William Giauque

(for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

António Egas Moniz

(for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses)