In 1906, 6 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.
Birth country: France
Motivation: in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him
Affiliation: Sorbonne University - France
Birth country: Italy
Motivation: not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces
Birth country: Italy
Motivation: in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system
Affiliation: Pavia University - Italy
Birth country: Spain
Motivation: in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system
Affiliation: Madrid University - Spain
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases
Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom
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