1902 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Hermann Emil Fischer

in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses

Literature

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen

the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, <I>A history of Rome</I>

Peace

Élie Ducommun

for his untiring and skilful directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau

Charles Albert Gobat

for his eminently practical administration of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Physics

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena

Pieter Zeeman

in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena

Physiology or Medicine

Ronald Ross

for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it