Karl Landsteiner
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Nobel Prize award ceremony 1930: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (physics laureate), Hans Fischer (chemistry laureate), Karl Landsteiner (medicine laureate) and Sinclair Lewis (literature laureate).
Photographer unknown (TT Nyhetsbyrån). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl Landsteiner celebrating the Swedish festival of Lucia in December 1930 when he visited Stockholm to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony.
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Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.