1915

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

The war ground on with poison gas at Second Ypres, the doomed Allied landings at Gallipoli, and the German U-boat sinking of the Lusitania, which killed nearly 1,200 and inflamed American opinion. The first transcontinental telephone call linked New York and San Francisco.

A Year in Review

Major Events of 1915

10 events

First Zeppelin Bombing of England Gallipoli Campaign Begins Second Battle of Ypres Lusitania Sunk Vilnius Falls to Germans Third Battle of Artois Battle of Verdun Battle of Jutland Island Battle of Somme First Transcontinental Telephone Conversation

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1915

Champions

US OpenJohn Travers. Score: 297 Course: Balustrol GC Location: Springfield, NJ

World SeriesBoston Red Sox vs. Philadelphia Phillies Series: 4-1

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

WILLSTTTER, 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. 19