In 1911, 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: Poland
Motivation: in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element
Affiliation: Sorbonne University - France
Birth country: Belgium
Motivation: in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations
Birth country: Sweden
Motivation: for his work on the dioptrics of the eye
Affiliation: Uppsala University - Sweden
Birth country: the Netherlands
Motivation: for his role as co-founder of the Institut de droit international, initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law (Conférences de Droit international privé) at the Hague, and pioneer in the field of international legal relations
Birth country: Austria
Motivation: for his effort to expose and fight what he considers to be the main cause of war, namely, the anarchy in international relations
Birth country: Russia
Motivation: for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat
Affiliation: Würzburg University - Germany
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