Nobel Prize Winners of 1913

In 1913, 5 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.

1913 - Chemistry

Alfred Werner - Male - 46 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry

Affiliation: University of Zurich - Switzerland

1913 - Literature

Rabindranath Tagore - Male - 52 years

Birth country: India

Motivation: because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West

1913 - Medicine

Charles Robert Richet - Male - 63 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis

Affiliation: Sorbonne University - France

1913 - Peace

Henri La Fontaine - Male - 59 years

Birth country: Belgium

Motivation: for his unparalleled contribution to the organization of peaceful internationalism

1913 - Physics

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - Male - 60 years

Birth country: the Netherlands

Motivation: for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium

Affiliation: Leiden University - the Netherlands

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