Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
Born October 31, 1835, in Berlin, Germany, and died August 20, 1917, in Starnberg. In recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Robert Koch
Born December 11, 1843, in Clausthal, Hanover, and died May 27, 1910, in Baden-Baden.For his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis.
Nobel Prize in Literature
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Born May 5, 1846, in Wola Okrzejska, Poland, and died November 15, 1916, in Vevey, Switzerland. Because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer.
Nobel Peace Prize
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
Born June 9, 1843, in Prague, Austrian (now Czech Republic), and died June 21, 1914, in Vienna, Austria. For her activities in favor of peace, both for her writings and her active presence in peace societies and international conferences.
1906
Nobel Prize in Physics
Joseph John Thomson
Born December 18, 1856, near Manchester, England, and died August 30, 1940, in Cambridge. In recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henri Moissan
Born September 28, 1852, in Paris, France, and died February 20, 1907, in Paris. In recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Camillo Golgi
Born July 7, 1843, in Corteno, Italy, and died January 21, 1926, in Pavia.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Born May 1, 1852, in Petilla de Aragón, Spain, and died October 17, 1934, in Madrid. In recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system.
Nobel Prize in Literature
Giosuè Carducci
Born July 27, 1835, in Val di Castello, Italy, and died February 16, 1907, in Bologna. Not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces.
Nobel Peace Prize
Theodore Roosevelt
Born October 27, 1858, in New York, New York, and died January 6, 1919, in Oyster Bay, New York. For his intervention in the Russo-Japanese War at the Peace Conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1907
Nobel Prize in Physics
Albert Abraham Michelson
Born December 19, 1852, in Strelno, Prussia (now Poland), and died May 9, 1931, in Pasadena, California. For his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eduard Buchner
Born May 20, 1860, in Munich, Germany, and died August 12, 1917, in Munich. For his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Born June 18, 1845, in Paris, France, and died May 18, 1922, in Paris.In recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases.
Nobel Prize in Literature
Rudyard Kipling
Born December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, and died January 18, 1936, in London, England. In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration, which characterize the creations of this world-famous author.
Nobel Peace Prize
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Born September 20, 1833, in Milan, Italy, and died February 10, 1918, Milan. Distinguished for the foundation of the Unione Lombarda [Lombard Union of Peace] in 1887, the conferences for peace in Italy and presidency of the 1906 International Peace Congress in Milan.
1908
Nobel Prize in Physics
Gabriel Lippmann
Born August 16, 1845, in Hollerich, Luxembourg, and died July 13, 1921, at sea, returning to Paris, France. For his method of reproducing colors photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ernest Rutherford
Born August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand, and died October 19, 1937, in Cambridge, England. For his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Paul Ehrlich
Born March 14, 1854, in Strehlen, Germany, and died August 20, 1915, in Bad Homburg.
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Elie Mechnikov, née Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
Born May 16, 1845, in Kharkov, Russia (now Ukraine), and died July 16, 1916, in Paris, France. In recognition of their work on immunity.
Nobel Prize in Literature
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Born January 5, 1846, in Aurich, Germany, and died September 14, 1926, in Jena. In recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life.
Nobel Peace Prize
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Born October 27, 1844, in Gothenberg, Sweden, and died February 20, 1916, in Stockholm. He has fought for peace for 35 years, especially through his writings, which were important for the founding of the Swedish Arbitration Society.
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Fredrik Bajer
Born April 21, 1837, in Vester Egede, Denmark, and died January 22, 1922, in Copenhagen. [For] political activities and writings in support of peace.
1909
Nobel Prize in Physics
Guglielmo Marconi
Born April 25, 1874, in Bologna, Italy, and died July 20, 1937, in Rome.
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Karl Ferdinand Braun
Born June 6, 1850, in Fulda, Germany, and died April 20, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York. In recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.
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