List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine

Year	Names	Discoveries
1957	Daniel Bovet	"for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"
1956	Andre Frederic Cournand Werner Forssmann Dickinson W. Richards	"for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
1955	Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell	"for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"
1954	John Franklin Enders Thomas Huckle Weller Frederick Chapman Robbins	"for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
1953	Hans Adolf Krebs	"for his discovery of the citric acid cycle"
1953	Fritz Albert Lipmann	"for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism"
1952	Selman Abraham Waksman	"for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"
1951	Max Theiler	"for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it"
1950	Edward Calvin Kendall Tadeus Reichstein Philip Showalter Hench	"for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
1949	Walter Rudolf Hess	"for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs"