Awards & Winners

1966 Nobel Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1966 Nobel Prize. Check awards winners of 1966 Nobel Prize Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1966 Nobel Prize Ceremony

Nobel Prize in Literature

Nelly Sachs

(for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength)
Nobel Prize in Literature

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

(for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Alfred Kastler

(for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Francis Peyton Rous

(for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Robert S. Mulliken

(for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Charles Brenton Huggins

(for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer)
Nobel Peace Prize