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Major Events of 1915

News Headlines

Sports

US Open: John Travers. Score: 297 Course: Balustrol GC Location: Springfield, NJ
World Series: Boston Red Sox vs. Philadelphia Phillies Series: 4-1

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
WILLST€TTER, RICHARD MARTIN, Germany, Munich University, b. 1872, d. 1942: "for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll"

Literature
ROLLAND, ROMAIN, France, b. 1866, d. 1944: "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings"

Peace
The prize money for 1914-1916 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physiology or Medicine
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: BRAGG, Sir WILLIAM HENRY, Great Britain, London University, b. 1862, d. 1942; and his son BRAGG, Sir WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Great Britain, Victoria University, Manchester, b. 1890 (in Adelaide, Australia), d. 1971: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"