Nobel Prizes And Laureates

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1912 - Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners
December 8, 1972
François Auguste Victor Grignard (1871 - 1935) was a French chemist. He is most noted for devising a new method for generating carbon-carbon bonds which is valuable in organic synthesis.
Paul Sabatier (1854 - 1941) was a French chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners
December 8, 1972
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (1862 – 1946) was a German playwright, poet, and novelist. He was the most prominent German dramatist of the early 20th century. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism. His most notable works were The Weavers and The Rats.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1912 - Gustaf Dalén
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners
December 8, 1972
Nils Gustaf Dalén (1869 – 1937) was a Swedish physicist, inventor, and industrialist. He founded the AGA company in 1909. He is noted for his invention of automatic regulators for use in lighthouses and buoys.

Happy Birthday to Swiss businessman and social activist Jean Henri Dunant (1828-1910), founder of the Red Cross, and the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (together with Frédéric Passy, 1901). Here is an image of an engraved stamp featuring a portrait of Dunant, designed by Max Boegli, and issued by Switzerland on September 14, 1978 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the humanitarian's birth, Scott No. 663, plus an image of a photograph of Henri Dunant as a young man which was surely the model for this stamp's design.

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Mother Teresa 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner commemorated on an Indian stamp

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners
December 10, 1968
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845 – 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgian physicist and inventor. He received the Nobel Prize for his creation of a color photography process using the natural color of light wavelengths instead of dyes and pigments.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846 – 1926) was a German philosopher. He received the Nobel Prize for his numerous works which reflect an idealistic philosophy of life.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Albert Michelson
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907 - Eduard Buchner
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners
December 9, 1967
Albert Abraham Michelson (1852 – 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light.
Eduard Buchner (1860 – 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his biochemical research and his discovery of cell-free fermentation.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1974 - George Emil Palade
Romania
Brilliant Romanians
March 18, 2016
George Emil Palade (1912 – 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundation of modern molecular cell biology.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 - Frits Zernike
Netherlands
Dutch Nobel Prize Laureates
September 26, 1995
Frits Zernike (1888 – 1966) was a Dutch physicist. He received the Nobel prize for his invention of the phase contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the cells.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1997 - Dario Fo
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners
November 13, 2008
Dario Fo (1926 – 2016) was an Italian actor–playwright, comedian, singer, and theater director. In his time he was arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theater. Among his notable works are The Virtuous Burglar, Mistero Buffo, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, and Trumpets and Raspberries.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975 - Vladimir Prelog
Nobel Prize Winners
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo Administration)
October 25, 2006
Vladimir Prelog (1906 – 1998) was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 - Otto Hahn
Germany
Centenary of Nobel Prize Winners
August 9, 1979
Otto Hahn (1879 - 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of fission in uranium.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 - Victor Hess
Austria
Centenary of the Discovery of Cosmic Radiation
May 5, 2012
Victor Franz Hess (1883 – 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist. He and Carl Anderson shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of cosmic radiation.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont
Poland
Nobel Prize Winner
December 12, 1967
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (1867 – 1925) was a Polish novelist. His best-known work is the four-volume novel Chlopi (The Peasants) written between 1892 and 1899.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1928 - Sigrid Undset
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 - Nadine Gordimer

Nobel Prize Winners
Sweden
October 3, 1998
Sigrid Undset (1882 – 1949) was a Norwegian novelist. Her best-known work Kristin Lavransdatter portrays life in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages.
Nadine Gordimer (1923 – 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. Her notable works include The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, and July's People.