Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
FISCHER, HERMANN EMIL, Germany, Berlin University, b. 1852, d. 1919: "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses"
Literature
MOMMSEN, CHRISTIAN MATTHIAS THEODOR, Germany, b. 1817 (in Garding, Sleswick, then Denmark), d. 1903: "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome"
Physiology or Medicine
ROSS, Sir RONALD, Great Britain, University College, Liverpool, b. 1857 (in Almora, India), d. 1932: "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on t
Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: LORENTZ, HENDRIK ANTOON, the Netherlands, Leyden University, b. 1853, d. 1928; and ZEEMAN, PIETER, the Netherlands, Amsterdam University, b. 1865, d. 1943: "in recognition of the extraordinary service they