Awards & Winners

1959 Nobel Prize

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Nobel Prize in Literature

Salvatore Quasimodo

(for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Owen Chamberlain, Emilio G. Segrè

(for their discovery of the antiproton)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jaroslav Heyrovský

(for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg

(for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid)