Richard Garwin on the 1957 Nobel Prize.

McCray:

Then a year after that or that year, I can't recall exactly what year they got the Nobel Prize, but it was either that year or the following.

Garwin:

No, I think it was that year, 1957. And of course you can only have three people in a Nobel Prize. Lee and Yang were obviously the people who deserved it. They had done all of this wonderful work. They'd devised experiments, told people where to look, and so on. Wu deserved it too, but I don't know. Maybe the prize committee thought that there were too many if they wanted to give it to them and us. I don't know anything about that.