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Nobel Prize

Austria · Science / Medicine. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1930–1973Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1930

Karl Landsteiner1930

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the major human blood groups, a finding that made safer blood transfusion possible.

1936

Otto Loewi1936

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

1973

Karl von Frisch1973

Science / Medicine

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz1973

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning individual and social behaviour patterns.

Names involved

Karl LandsteinerKarl von FrischKonrad Zacharias LorenzOtto Loewi

Provenance

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