Nobel Foundation

Grazia Deledda was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her inspired autobiographical and imaginative writings.

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson from Great Britain and Arthur Holly Compton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour.

Sigrid Undset 's powerful and evocative novelistic descriptions of Scandinavian life in the Middle Ages gained her the Nobel Prize in Literature. (The British Sir Owen Willans Richardson won the prize in Physics.)

For his discovery of growth-stimulating vitamins, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Jane Addams , US social feminist, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Nicholas Murray Butler .

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington and Lord (Edgar Douglas) Adrian from Great Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the functions of neurons.

For his active participation in peace organizations such as the World Committee against War and Fascism and the League of Nations , Sir Norman Angell from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Arthur Henderson from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards dismarmanent after the World War I.

Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their synthesis of new radioactive elements.

Sir Henry Hallett Dale from Great Britain and Otto Loewi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky , a German pacifist who had been arrested two years before this and sent to a concentration camp for exposing Nazi activities in...

Writer and founder of the International Peace Campaign , Viscount Cecil of Chelwood from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Richard Kuhn of Germany was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with vitamins, but the Nazi government prevented him from accepting.

Gabriela Mistral 's powerfully evocative lyric poetry earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Emily Greene Balch , founder of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with John Raleigh Mott .