Nobel Prize Winners of 1903

In 1903, 7 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 5 categories: Chemistry, Literature, Medicine, Peace, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.

1903 - Chemistry

Svante August Arrhenius - Male - 44 years

Birth country: Sweden

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

Affiliation: Stockholm University - Sweden

1903 - Literature

Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson - Male - 70 years

Birth country: Norway

Motivation: as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit

1903 - Medicine

Niels Ryberg Finsen - Male - 42 years

Birth country: Faroe Islands (Denmark)

Motivation: 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

Affiliation: Finsen Medical Light Institute - Denmark

1903 - Peace

William Randal Cremer - Male - 75 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for his longstanding and devoted effort in favour of the ideas of peace and arbitration

1903 - Physics

Antoine Henri Becquerel - Male - 50 years

Birth country: France

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

Affiliation: École Polytechnique - France

Pierre Curie - Male - 44 years

Birth country: France

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

Affiliation: École municipale de physique et de chimie industrielles (Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry) - France

Marie Curie, née Skłodowska - Female - 36 years

Birth country: Poland

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

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