top button
Flag Notify
    Connect to us
      Site Registration

Site Registration

When and to whom, first Nobel prize was given? What discovery had been made by that scientist?

+2 votes
213 views
When and to whom, first Nobel prize was given? What discovery had been made by that scientist?
posted Feb 19, 2016 by Aavishkar Kumar

Share this question
Facebook Share Button Twitter Share Button LinkedIn Share Button

1 Answer

+1 vote
 
Best answer

The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901 as follows .

Physics Prize - Wilhelm Röntgen for discovery of X-rays
Chemistry Prize - Jacobus van't Hoff for his contributions in chemical thermodynamics
Litterature - Sully Prudhomme
Physiology or Medicine Prize - German physiologist and microbiologist Emil von Behring for research on antitoxin to treat diphtheria.

answer Feb 19, 2016 by Sanoj Kumar
Similar Questions
+2 votes

Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta", established a major Law of Radiation and sparked the development of Quantum Theory from 1900?

0 votes

Which German-born political scientist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration?

...