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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.