NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27498, 4 November 1954, Page 11

NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

HONOURS FOR U.S. SCIENTIST (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) STOCKHOLM, November 1. The Swedish Academy of Science had decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry to Dr. Linus Pauling, of the Gates and Chellin Chemical Laboratories, Pasadena, California, it was reported today. The prize is worth 181,646 crowns (about £12,527). The decision must be ratified by the academy at its session on Wednesday. This means that the United States has been granted three of the four Nobel Prizes awarded. The literature prize went to Ernest Hemingway, and the medicine prize jointly to Dr. John F. Enders, Dr. Thomas Weller, and Dr. Frederick Robbins, poliomyelitis specialists at the Children’s Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Pauling is an expert on the structure of protein molescules. He served on the Research Board for National Security during the war. The fourth prize, physics, also worth 181,646, crowns, is shared bv two Germans, Professor Walter Bothe, of Heir delberg, and Professor Max Born, an expert on the mathematical side of nuclear physics, and formerly professor of mathematical physics at Edinburgh University.