Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
LIBBY, WILLARD FRANK, U.S.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA, b. 1908, d. 1980: "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science" ••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Literature
SAINT-JOHN PERSE (pen-name of LƒGER, ALEXIS), France, b. 1887, (on Guadelope Island), d. 1975: "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time" •••••••••••••••
Peace
ALBERT JOHN LUTULI , President of the South African liberation movement, the African National Congress. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: BURNET, Sir FRANK MACFARLANE, Australia, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, b. 1899, d. 1985; and MEDAWAR, Sir PETER BRIAN, Great Britain, University College, London, b. 1915 (
Physics
GLASER, DONALD A., U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1926: "for the invention of the bubble chamber"