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All Nobel Prizes (1911-1915): 1915 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 Sir William Henry BraggandWilliam Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1915 Richard Martin Willstätter "for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1915 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 Romain Rolland "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" The Nobel Peace Prize 1915 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. 1914 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 Max von Laue "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 Theodore William Richards "in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 Robert Bárány "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1914 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Peace Prize 1914 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. 1913 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1913 Alfred Werner "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1913 Charles Robert Richet "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West" The Nobel Peace Prize 1913 Henri La Fontaine 1912 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1912 Victor Grignard "for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry" Paul Sabatier "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1912 Alexis Carrel "in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1912 Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann "primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art" The Nobel Peace Prize 1912 Elihu Root 1911 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 Wilhelm Wien "for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1911 Allvar Gullstrand "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1911 Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers'own feelings and stimulate their imaginations" The Nobel Peace Prize 1911 Tobias Michael Carel Asser Alfred Hermann Fried