Nobel Prizes awarded to five Americans for physics and medicine on the 60th anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel

On the 60th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm by King Gustav Adolf. Dr. William Shockley, Dr. John Bardeen, and Dr. Walter Bratton share the physics prize for their work on the transistor. In medicine, Drs. André Cournand and Dickinson Richards are honored for developing a method to chart the human heart, contributing to the fight against heart disease.

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