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All Nobel Prizes (1905-1910): 1910 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910 Otto Wallach "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1910 Albrecht Kossel "in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of cell chemistry made through his work on proteins, including the nucleic substances" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1910 Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories" The Nobel Peace Prize 1910 Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau) 1909 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 Guglielmo MarconiandKarl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 Wilhelm Ostwald "in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 Emil Theodor Kocher "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings" The Nobel Peace Prize 1909 Auguste Marie François Beernaert Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque 1908 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1908 Gabriel Lippmann "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 Ernest Rutherford "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 Ilya Ilyich MechnikovandPaul Ehrlich "in recognition of their work on immunity" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken "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" The Nobel Peace Prize 1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson Fredrik Bajer 1907 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 Albert Abraham Michelson "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907 Eduard Buchner "for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran "in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 Rudyard Kipling "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" The Nobel Peace Prize 1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Louis Renault 1906 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 Joseph John Thomson "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1906 Henri Moissan "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" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906 Camillo GolgiandSantiago Ramón y Cajal "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1906 Giosuè Carducci "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" The Nobel Peace Prize 1906 Theodore Roosevelt 1905 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard "for his work on cathode rays" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer "in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905 Robert Koch "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer" The Nobel Peace Prize 1905 Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
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
All Nobel Prizes (1916-1921): 1921 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921 Frederick Soddy "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1921 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 1921 Anatole France "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament" The Nobel Peace Prize 1921 Karl Hjalmar Branting Christian Lous Lange 1920 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume "in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920 Walther Hermann Nernst "in recognition of his work in thermochemistry" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1920 Schack August Steenberg Krogh "for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 Knut Pedersen Hamsun "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil" The Nobel Peace Prize 1920 Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois 1919 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1919 Johannes Stark "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1919 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1919 Jules Bordet "for his discoveries relating to immunity" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1919 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring" The Nobel Peace Prize 1919 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 1918 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck "in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 Fritz Haber "for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1918 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 1918 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Peace Prize 1918 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. 1917 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 Charles Glover Barkla "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1917 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1917 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 1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals" Henrik Pontoppidan "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark" The Nobel Peace Prize 1917 Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 1916 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1916 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1916 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1916 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 1916 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature" The Nobel Peace Prize 1916 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
All Nobel Prizes (1922-1927): 1927 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 Arthur Holly Compton "for his discovery of the effect named after him" Charles Thomson Rees Wilson "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1927 Heinrich Otto Wieland "for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927 Julius Wagner-Jauregg "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1927 Henri Bergson "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented" The Nobel Peace Prize 1927 Ferdinand Buisson Ludwig Quidde 1926 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926 The (Theodor) Svedberg "for his work on disperse systems" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1926 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 Grazia Deledda "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general" The Nobel Peace Prize 1926 Aristide Briand Gustav Stresemann 1925 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 James FranckandGustav Ludwig Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy "for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1925 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 1925 George Bernard Shaw "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty" The Nobel Peace Prize 1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain Charles Gates Dawes 1924 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1924 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1924 Willem Einthoven "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont "for his great national epic, The Peasants" The Nobel Peace Prize 1924 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. 1923 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 Robert Andrews Millikan "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923 Fritz Pregl "for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923 Frederick Grant BantingandJohn James Rickard Macleod "for the discovery of insulin" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation" The Nobel Peace Prize 1923 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. 1922 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 Niels Henrik David Bohr "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922 Francis William Aston "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1922 Archibald Vivian Hill "for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle" Otto Fritz Meyerhof "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 Jacinto Benavente "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama" The Nobel Peace Prize 1922 Fridtjof Nansen
All Nobel Prizes (1928-1934): 1934 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1934 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934 Harold Clayton Urey "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 George Hoyt Whipple,George Richards MinotandWilliam Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1934 Luigi Pirandello "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art" The Nobel Peace Prize 1934 Arthur Henderson 1933 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 Erwin SchrödingerandPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1933 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933 Thomas Hunt Morgan "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing" The Nobel Peace Prize 1933 Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) 1932 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 Werner Karl Heisenberg "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932 Irving Langmuir "for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932 Sir Charles Scott SherringtonandEdgar Douglas Adrian "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1932 John Galsworthy "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga " The Nobel Peace Prize 1932 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. 1931 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1931 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1931 Carl BoschandFriedrich Bergius "in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931 Otto Heinrich Warburg "for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt "The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt" The Nobel Peace Prize 1931 Jane Addams Nicholas Murray Butler 1930 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1930 Hans Fischer "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930 Karl Landsteiner "for his discovery of human blood groups" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters" The Nobel Peace Prize 1930 Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom 1929 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929 Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie "for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 Arthur HardenandHans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 Christiaan Eijkman "for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin" Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1929 Thomas Mann "principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature" The Nobel Peace Prize 1929 Frank Billings Kellogg 1928 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928 Owen Willans Richardson "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus "for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1928 Charles Jules Henri Nicolle "for his work on typhus" The Nobel Prize in Literature 1928 Sigrid Undset "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages" The Nobel Peace Prize 1928 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
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