1920

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American women won the vote with the Nineteenth Amendment, and Prohibition took effect nationwide. The League of Nations convened as the U.S. Senate refused to join, the first commercial radio broadcasts aired, and Ireland descended into war for independence.

A Year in Review

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

NERNST, WALTHER HERMANN, Germany, Berlin University, b. 1864, d. 1941: "in recognition of his work in thermochemistry"

Literature

HAMSUN, KNUT PEDERSEN, Norway, b. 1859, d. 1952: "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil"

Peace

BOURGEOIS, LƒON VICTOR AUGUSTE , France, b. 1851, d. 1925: Former Secretary of State. President of the Parliament (Snat). President of the Conseil de la Socit des Nations (Council of the League of Nations)

Physiology or Medicine

KROGH, SCHACK AUGUST STEENBERG, Denmark, Copenhagen University, b. 1874, d. 1949: "for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism"

Physics