1903 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

Svante August Arrhenius

in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation

Literature

Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson

as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit

Peace

William Randal Cremer

for his longstanding and devoted effort in favour of the ideas of peace and arbitration

Physics

Antoine Henri Becquerel

in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity

Pierre Curie

in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel

Marie Curie, née Skłodowska

in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel

Physiology or Medicine

Niels Ryberg Finsen

in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science