Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
VAN'T HOFF, JACOBUS HENRICUS, the Netherlands, Berlin University, Germany, b. 1852, d. 1911: "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
Literature
SULLY-PRUDHOMME (pen-name of PRUDHOMME, RENƒ FRAN‚OIS ARMAND), France, b. 1839, d. 1907: "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the quali
Physiology or Medicine
VON BEHRING, EMIL ADOLF, Germany, Marburg University, b. 1854, d. 1917: "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in
Peace
The prize was divided equally between: JEAN HENRI DUNANT, Switzerland. b. 1828, d. 1910: Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva; Initiator of the Geneva Convention (Convention de Genve). FRƒDƒRIC PASSY, France
Physics
R…NTGEN, WILHELM CONRAD, Germany, Munich University, b. 1845, d. 1923: "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him" googletag.cmd.push(function() { googl