On 10 December 1901, the fifth anniversary of the death of the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were presented in Stockholm, in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Literature, with the Peace Prize presented in Christiania, Oslo. The winners were Wilhelm Roentgen for X-rays, Jacobus van 't Hoff, Emil von Behring, Sully Prudhomme, and Henry Dunant and Frederic Passy for peace. Nobel's will of 1895 had left most of his fortune of 31 million kronor to fund them. A prize in economic sciences was added in 1969 by the Swedish central bank. Marie Curie was the first woman to win one in 1903.
Before and after
- 14 September 1901Death of William McKinley
- 29 September 1901Birth of Enrico Fermi
- 5 December 1901Birth of Werner Heisenberg
- 5 December 1901Birth of Walt Disney
- 10 December 1901The first Nobel Prizes are awarded
- 27 December 1901Birth of Marlene Dietrich
- 1902Construction of Egyptian Museum
- 1902Publication of The Hound of the Baskervilles
- 1902Founding of Argentina national football team
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