During the 1960s there were fifty-six recipients of Nobel Prizes in the sciences, and half of them were Americans. The Nobel Prize is widely considered to be the highest honor bestowed upon scientists and signifies worldwide recognition of their work.

1960: Physics, Donald Glaser; Chemistry, Willard F. Libby

1961: Physics, Robert Hofstadter; Chemistry, Melvin Calvin; Medicine and/or Physiology, Georg von Bekesy

1962: Physiology and/or Medicine, James D. Watson

1963: Physics, Eugene P. Wigner and Maria Goeppert-Mayer

1964: Physiology and/or Medicine, Konrad E. Bloch; Physics, Charles H. Townes

1965: Physics, Richard P. Feynman and Julian S. Schwinger; Chemistry, Robert B. Woodward

1966: Physiology and/or Medicine, Francis Peyton Rous and Charles B. Huggins; Chemistry, Robert S. Mul-liken

1967: Physiology and/or Medicine, Haldan Keffer Hartline; Physiology and/or Medicine, George Wald; Physics, Hans A. Bethe

1968: Physiology and/or Medicine, Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, and Marshall W. Nirenberg; Physics, Luis W...