NOBEL PRIZES

1958 prizes for literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, and physiology: g58 12/8 31

discussion: g77 3/22 3-4; g49 3/8 24

for transistors: g56 12/22 29

inventor’s only regret: g80 5/8 30

literature:

Alexis Léger, 1960: g60 12/8 30

medicine:

discovery of enzymes producing nucleic acids: g59 11/22 29

no one found worthy of peace prizes in 1955 and 1956: w57 95

physics:

for developing transistors, in 1956: g56 12/22 29

for discovery of universal background radiation: g81 2/22 11; g79 1/22 29-30

prize-winning scientists donate sperm: w80 6/1 11