Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1903: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Svante August Arrhenius

    Chemistry

    in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation

  2. Medicine

    Niels Ryberg Finsen

    Biology

    in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science

  3. Physics

    Antoine Henri Becquerel

    Physics

    in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity

  4. Physics

    Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, née Sklodowska

    Physics

    in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel