Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1904: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Sir William Ramsay

    Chemistry

    in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system

  2. Medicine

    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

    Biology

    in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged

  3. Physics

    Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)

    Physics

    for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies