U.S. Open Golf Winner: Willie Anderson
Score: 331
Course: Myopia Hunt Club
Location: Hamilton, MA
Chemistry
VAN'T HOFF, JACOBUS HENRICUS, the Netherlands, Berlin University, Germany, b. 1852, d. 1911: "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
Literature
SULLY-PRUDHOMME (pen-name of PRUDHOMME, RENƒ FRAN‚OIS ARMAND), France, b. 1839, d. 1907: "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualitites of both heart and intellect"
Physiology or Medicine
VON BEHRING, EMIL ADOLF, Germany, Marburg University, b. 1854, d. 1917: "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths"
Peace
The prize was divided equally between: JEAN HENRI DUNANT, Switzerland. b. 1828, d. 1910: Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva; Initiator of the Geneva Convention (Convention de Genve). FRƒDƒRIC PASSY, France. b. 1822, d. 1912: Founder and President of the first French peace society (since 1889 it has been called the Soci&;tŽ Franaise pour l'arbitrage entre nations).
Physics
R…NTGEN, WILHELM CONRAD, Germany, Munich University, b. 1845, d. 1923: "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
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