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Who are the 1956 Nobel Prize winners?

Here are the 1956 Nobel Prize winners:

Physiology or Medicine:

* Werner Forssmann (Germany) - "for his discoveries concerning heart catheterization and its diagnostic value in circulatory diseases"

* Dickinson W. Richards (USA) - "for his discoveries concerning heart catheterization and its diagnostic value in circulatory diseases"

* André F. Cournand (USA) - "for his discoveries concerning heart catheterization and its diagnostic value in circulatory diseases"

Physics:

* William Shockley (USA) - "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"

* John Bardeen (USA) - "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"

* Walter Brattain (USA) - "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"

Chemistry:

* Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (UK) - "for his researches on the mechanism of chemical reactions"

* Nikolaj Nikolajevič Semenov (Soviet Union) - "for his researches on the mechanism of chemical reactions"

Literature:

* Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain) - "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish spirit, constitutes an example of high sensibility, artistic purity, and intellectual strength"

Peace:

* None Awarded

Economics:

* The Nobel Prize in Economics was not awarded until 1969.

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