1930's Medicine and Health | Awards

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN MEDICINE
OR PHYSIOLOGY

1930
Karl Landsteiner (Austrian-born American) for the identification of human blood into the major groups A, B, AB, and O.

1931
Otto Warburg (Germany) for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.

1932
Edgar D. Adrian and Charles S. Sherrington (United Kingdom) for their discovery regarding the functions of the neurons.

1933
Thomas Hunt Morgan (United States) for his discovery of the heredity transmission functions of chromosomes.

1934
George R. Minot, William P. Murphy, and George H. Whipple (United States) for their work on liver extract therapy to overcome anemia.

1935
Hans Spemann (Germany), embryologist, for discovering the organizer effect in embryonic growth.

1936
Henry H. Dale (United Kingdom) and...