Alfred Wernerin recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry
Rabindranath Tagorebecause of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West
Heike Kamerlingh Onnesfor his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium