* Physiology or Medicine: François Jacob, Jacques Monod, and André Lwoff for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
* Physics: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard Feynman for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
* Chemistry: Robert Burns Woodward for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis.
* Literature: Mikhail Sholokhov for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people.
* Peace: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for its work in promoting brotherhood among nations, as exemplified in its fight against disease, illiteracy and poverty.
* Economics: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was not awarded in 1965. It was first awarded in 1969.