Academy Awards

Best Picture: "Going My Way"
Best Director: Leo McCarey ..."Going My Way"
Best Actor: Bing Crosby ..."Going My Way"
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman ... "Gaslight"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
HAHN, OTTO, Germany, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut, (now Max-Planck Institut) fŸr Chemie, Berlin-Dahlem, b. 1879, d. 1968: "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"

Literature
JENSEN, JOHANNES VILHELM, Denmark, b. 1873, d. 1950: "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style"

Peace
COMITƒ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS)

Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: ERLANGER, JOSEPH, U.S.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, b. 1874, d. 1965; and GASSER, HERBERT SPENCER, U.S.A., Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, b. 1888, d. 1963: "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"

Physics
RABI, ISIDOR ISAAC, U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, b. 1898, (in Rymanow, then Austria-Hungary) d. 1988: "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"

Pulitzer Prizes

Fiction: Martin Flavin ... "Journey in the Dark"
History: Merle Curti ... "The Growth of American Thought"
International Reporting: Daniel DeLuce ... "Associated Press"
National Reporting: Dewy L. Fleming ... "Baltimore Sun"
Public Service: "Omaha (NE) World Herald"