Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
WERNER, ALFRED, Switzerland, Zurich University, b. 1866 (in Mulhouse, Alsace, then Germany), d. 1919: "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up
Literature
TAGORE, RABINDRANATH, India, b. 1861, d. 1941: "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with comsummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of
Physiology or Medicine
RICHET, CHARLES ROBERT, France, Sorbonne University, Paris, b. 1850, d. 1935: "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis"
Physics
KAMERLINGH-ONNES, HEIKE, the Netherlands, Leyden University b. 1853, d. 1926: "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia to the production of liquid helium" (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogl