1908 - Chemistry
Ernest Rutherford - Male - 37 years
Birth country: New Zealand
Motivation: for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances
Affiliation: Victoria University - United Kingdom
Nobel Prize Winners of 1908
In 1908, 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.
1908 - Literature
Rudolf Christoph Eucken - Male - 62 years
Birth country: Germany
Motivation: in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life
1908 - Medicine
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov - Male - 63 years
Birth country: Ukraine
Motivation: in recognition of their work on immunity
Affiliation: Institut Pasteur - France
Paul Ehrlich - Male - 54 years
Birth country: Poland
Motivation: in recognition of their work on immunity
Affiliation: Goettingen University - Germany; Königliches Institut für experimentelle Therapie (Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy) - Germany
1908 - Peace
Klas Pontus Arnoldson - Male - 64 years
Birth country: Sweden
Motivation: for their long time work for the cause of peace as politicians, peace society leaders, orators and authors
Fredrik Bajer - Male - 71 years
Birth country: Denmark
Motivation: for their long time work for the cause of peace as politicians, peace society leaders, orators and authors
1908 - Physics
Gabriel Lippmann - Male - 63 years
Birth country: Luxembourg
Motivation: for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference
Affiliation: Sorbonne University - France
