1964 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Check Nobel Prize winners & nominees for 1964 award ceremonies 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony and 1964 Nobel Prize Ceremony. Some famous … There have been four instances in which the award was given to two people (1904, 1917, … Nobel Media AB 2020. On December 10, 1964, 50 years ago, Rev. The Nobel Prize in Physics is a Nobel Prize in the science of physics. The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr." To cite this section MLA style: The Nobel Peace Prize 1964. NobelPrize.org. 1964 Prizewinners and finalists, including bios, photos, jurors and work by winners and finalists Close Cookie Notice This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and … for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted … Since 1964 all of the documents related to this award, such as the notes, nominations, and reports have been classified as secret and kept under lock and key in the Norwegian Nobel Committee's extensive archive. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 was divided, one half awarded to Charles Hard Townes, the other half jointly to Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle". JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Prize for Peace during an awards ceremony in Oslo, Norway.