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Physics:
Lev Davidovich Landau
"for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium"
Chemistry:
Max Ferdinand Perutz
and
John Cowdery Kendrew
"for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
Physiology or Medicine:
Francis Harry Compton Crick
,
James Dewey Watson
and
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
"for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
Literature:
John Steinbeck
"for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"
Peace:
Linus Carl Pauling
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