The 1955 Nobel Prize in Medicine ($36,720) went to Swedish Biochemist Hugo Theorell, 52, of the Nobel Medical Institute, Stockholm. The choice was made by the Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute of Stockholm. Dr. Theorell, who was crippled by polio when a young man and whose hobby is playing the violin, is a leading expert on the enzymes (organic catalysts) in living cells. His most notable achievement: the isolation of oxidation enzymes, which enable cells to breathe.
Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud, Cornell University biochemist, may have been a close runner-up. Until a few minutes before its announcement of Theorell's award, the Associated Press, tipped...
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