Nobels of the period 1911 - 1920

1911

Physics:

Wien, Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz

"For his discovery regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat"

Medicine:

Gullstrand, Allvar

"for his work on the dioptrics of the eye"

Peace:

Asser, Tobias Michael Carel

"as a practical legal statesman and pioneer in the field of international legal relations"

Fried, Alfred Hermann

"as the most industrious literaly pacifist in the past twenty years"

Literature:

Maeterlinck, Mauritius Polydorus Maria

"for his diverse literary and especially his dramatic works, which are outstanding for their richness of imagination and for the poetic realism"

Chemistry:

Curie, Marie

"In recognition of the special services rendered by them in the work they jointly carried out in investigating the phenomena of radiation discovered by Professor Becquerel"

"In recognition of the services rendered by her to the development of chemistry"

1912

Physics:

Dalen, Nils Gustaf

"for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjuction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys"

Medicine:

Carrel, Alexis

"for his work on vascular suturing, and on the grafting of blood vessels and organs"

Peace:

Root, Elihu

"for a number of efforts that were applauded by the Academy"

Literature:

Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann

"Primarily in recognition of his fruitful , varied, and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art"

Chemistry:

Grignard, Franois Auguste Victor

"For the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry"

Sabatier, Paul

"For his method of hydrogenerating organic compounds in the presence of finely divided metals"

1913

Physics:

Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike

for "researches on the properties of matter at low temperatures and the discovery of superconductivity"

Medicine:

Richet, Charles Robert

"In recognition of his work on anaphylaxis"

Peace:

La Fontaine, Henri marie

"for his efforts at establishing and furthering the principles of international cooperation and understanding among the peole of the world"

Literature:

Tagore, Rabindranath, Sir

"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"

Chemistry:

Werner, Alfred

"In recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules"

1914

Physics:

Laue, Max Theodor Felix von

"discovery of the diffraction of X-rays in crystals"

Medicine:

Barany, Robert

"for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"

Chemistry:

Richards, Theodore William

"In recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements"

1915

Physics:

Bragg, William Henry, Sir - Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir

"For the value of their contribution to the study of crystal structures by means of x-rays"

Literature:

Rolland, Romain

"As a tributer to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth which he has described different types of human beings"

Chemistry:

"Willstater, Richard Martin

"For his research on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll

1916

Literature:

Von Heidenstam, Carl Gustaf Verner

"In recognition of his significance as the leading represantative of a new era in our literature"

1917

Physics:

Barkla, Charles Glover

"for his discovery of the characteristic Roentgen radiation of the elements"

Peace:

International committee of the Red Cross

"for the help the ICRC gave to prisoners of war"

Literature:

Gjellerup, Karl Adolph

"for his many-sided , rich and inspiring writing with high ideals"

Pontoppidan, Henrik

"For his profuse descriptions of Danish life of today'

1918

Physics:

Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig

"For his work on the establishment and development of the theory of elementary quanta"

Literature:

Karlfeldt, Erik Axel

Chemistry:

Haber, Fritz

"For his development of the Haber process, which combined nitrogen and hydrogen under pressure with an iron catalyst, producing ammonia"

1919

Physics:

Stark, Johannes

"For his discovery of the doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electrical fields"

Medicine:

Bodet, Jules Jean Baptise Vincent

"for his work in regards to immunity"

Peace:

Wilson, Thomas Woodrow

"for his sincere attempts at peace negotiations"

Literature:

Spitteler, Carl Friedrich Georg

"In special appreciation of his epic, Olympischer Fruhling"

1920

Physics:

Guillaune, Charles Edouard

"In recognition of the services he has rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys"

Medicine:

Krogh, Schack August Steenberg

"for his discovery of the regulation of the motor mechanism of capillaries"

Peace:

Bourgeois, Leon-Victor Auguste

"In recognition of his status a the spiritual father at the League of Nations"

Literature:

Hamsun, Knut

"for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil"

Chemistry:

Nernst, Walther Hermann

"In recognition of his work in thermochemistry"