Polykarp Kusch
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From left: Chemistry laureate Vincent du Vigneaud, physics laureates Willis E. Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, medicine laureate Hugo Theorell and literature laureate Halldór Laxness having a look at their diplomas after the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1955.
Photo: Wim van Rossem for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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