Nobel Foundation

Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins of Great Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with James D. Watson of the USA, for their work on DNA.

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley from Great Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for researching the ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membranes. The prize was shared with...

Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but declined to accept it for personal and ideological reasons: the only person ever to do so.

Dorothy Hodgkin of Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries regarding the structures of important biochemical substances.

Nelly Sachs was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature jointly with Yosef Shmuel Agnon . The Nobel Foundation's joint award in 1966 recognized these two authors' writings about the cultural heritage of the Jewish people.

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and Sir George Porter from Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short...

Sir Derek H. R. Barton from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Barton shared the prize with Norway's Odd Hassel ; they were recognized for their contributions to the development of...

Sir Bernard Katz from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize was shared with fellow physiologists Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod , and recognized their discoveries concerning the...

Dennis Gabor from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing, and developing, the holographic method, which allowed for the retention of a wave-field's phase on a photographic plate.

British scientists were awarded two Nobel Prizes: in Physiology or Medicine, and in Economic Sciences.

Three British scientists were awarded Nobel Prizes which they shared with colleagues from other nations (in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics respectively).

Two British scientists received Nobel Prizes in Physics and one in Economic Sciences.

Sir John Warcup Cornforth from Great Britain and Australia was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. The award was shared with Switzerland's Vladimir Prelog , who...

Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan , founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement , were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Amnesty International , the London-based organization for monitoring the treatment of political prisoners, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.