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[Year]: 1917
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[Laureate]: Charles Glover Barkla
[Relation]: Professor of Physics, 1909–1913
[Category]: Physics
[Rationale]: "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements"
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[Year]: 1928
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[Laureate]: Owen Willans Richardson
[Relation]: Professor of Physics, 1914–1924
[Category]: Physics
[Rationale]: "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him"
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[Year]: 1929
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[Laureate]: Frederick Gowland Hopkins(shared with Christiaan Eijkman)
[Relation]: Student, Guy's Hospital; Professor of physiology and toxicology, Guy's Hospital, 1894–1898
[Category]: Physiology or Medicine
[Rationale]: "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"
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[Year]: 1932
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[Laureate]: Charles Scott Sherrington(shared with Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian)
[Relation]: Professor of systemic physiology, St Thomas' Hospital, 1887–1891
[Category]: Physiology or Medicine
[Rationale]: "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons"
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[Year]: 1947
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[Laureate]: Edward Victor Appleton
[Relation]: Wheatstone Professor of Physics, 1924–1936
[Category]: Physics
[Rationale]: "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer"
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[Year]: 1951
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[Laureate]: Max Theiler
[Relation]: M.D., 1922
[Category]: Physiology or Medicine
[Rationale]: "for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it"
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[Year]: 1962
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[Laureate]: Maurice Wilkins(shared with Francis Crick and James D. Watson)
[Relation]: Emeritus Professor of Biophysics
[Category]: Physiology or Medicine
[Rationale]: "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
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[Year]: 1984
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[Laureate]: Desmond Tutu
[Relation]: B.D., 1965; M.Th., 1966; Fellow of King's College, 1978; Visiting Professor in Post-conflict Societies, 2004
[Category]: Peace
[Rationale]: "Bishop of Johannesburg; former Secretary General, South African Council of Churches"
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[Year]: 1988
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[Laureate]: James W. Black(shared with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings)
[Relation]: Emeritus Professor of Analytical Pharmacology
[Category]: Physiology or Medicine
[Rationale]: "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
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[Year]: 2010
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[Laureate]: Mario Vargas Llosa
[Relation]: Lecturer in Spanish American Literature 1969–1970
[Category]: Literature
[Rationale]: "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
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[Year]: 2013
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[Laureate]: Peter Higgs(shared with François Englert)
[Relation]: B.Sc., 1950; M.Sc., 1952; PhD., 1954; Fellow of King's College, 1998
[Category]: Physics
[Rationale]: “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”
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[Year]: 2013
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[Laureate]: Michael Levitt(shared with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel)
[Relation]: B.Sc., 1967
[Category]: Chemistry
[Rationale]: "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
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