# Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 1950s

Every Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate between 1950 and 1959, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

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- Oct 16, 2019 · Craig
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## Top 20

1. **Edward Calvin Kendall** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1950. For their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.
2. **Philip Showalter Hench** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1950. For their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.
3. **Frederick Chapman Robbins** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1954. For their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.
4. **Tadeusz Reichstein** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1950. For their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.
5. **Hans Adolf Krebs** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1953. For his discovery of the citric acid cycle.
6. **Fritz Albert Lipmann** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1953. For his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism.
7. **Dickinson W. Richards** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1956. For their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
8. **Max Theiler** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1951. For his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it.
9. **Selman Abraham Waksman** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1952. For his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
10. **Daniel Bovet** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1957. For his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles.
11. **George Wells Beadle** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1958. For their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.
12. **Arthur Kornberg** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1959. For their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid.
13. **André Frédéric Cournand** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1956. For their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
14. **Thomas Huckle Weller** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1954. For their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.
15. **Edward Lawrie Tatum** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1958. For their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.
16. **John Franklin Enders** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1954. For their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.
17. **Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1955. For his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes.
18. **Werner Forssmann** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1956. For their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
19. **Joshua Lederberg** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1958. For his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria.
20. **Severo Ochoa** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1959. For their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid.

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