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Germany. For his work on cathode rays.

      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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