Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 1950s
The top 3 according to 43 votes from people: Edward Calvin Kendall · Philip Showalter Hench · Frederick Chapman Robbins. (Updated Oct 16, 2019.)
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?
Top 20
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Edward Calvin Kendall
1950. For their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.
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Philip Showalter Hench
1950. For their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.
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Frederick Chapman Robbins
1954. For their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.
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Tadeusz Reichstein
1950. For their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects.
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Hans Adolf Krebs
1953. For his discovery of the citric acid cycle.
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Fritz Albert Lipmann
1953. For his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism.
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Dickinson W. Richards
1956. For their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
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Max Theiler
1951. For his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it.
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Selman Abraham Waksman
1952. For his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
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Daniel Bovet
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.
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George Wells Beadle
1958. For their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.
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Arthur Kornberg
1959. For their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid.
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André Frédéric Cournand
1956. For their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
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Thomas Huckle Weller
1954. For their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.
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Edward Lawrie Tatum
1958. For their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.
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John Franklin Enders
1954. For their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.
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Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
1955. For his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes.
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Werner Forssmann
1956. For their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
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Joshua Lederberg
1958. For his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria.
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Severo Ochoa
1959. For their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid.
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Severo Ochoa, Spanish pride, alongside Kornberg.