Modern Era · Europe · Science

1901

First Nobel Prizes awarded

December 10, 1901

In Stockholm, the first Nobel Prizes were handed out under the terms of Alfred Nobel's will, which had tried to balance his fortune from dynamite with an annual endowment for human benefit. Roentgen took physics, Dunant the peace prize, Sully Prudhomme literature. A new hierarchy of global prestige had been created.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1900: Conrad publishes Lord Jim
After: June 11, 1903: Serbian king murdered in palace coup

Before and after in Science

Before: 1900: Freud publishes Interpretation of Dreams
After: 1905: Einstein's miracle year

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Nobel Prize