Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1901: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

    Chemistry

    in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions

  2. Medicine

    Emil Adolf von Behring

    Biology

    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

  3. Physics

    Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

    Physics

    in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him