1908

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1908 The Chemical Nature of the Alpha Particles from Radioactive Substances The study of the properties of the a-rays has played a notable part in the development of radioactivity and has been instrumental in bringing to light a number of facts and relationships of the first importance. With increase of experimental…

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Biographical

Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters. His father James Rutherford, a Scottish wheelwright, immigrated to New Zealand with Ernest’s grandfather and the whole family in 1842. His mother, née Martha Thompson, was an English…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1908 On the Present State of the Question of Immunity in Infectious Diseases I am here before you by virtue of paragraph 9 of the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which states that “it shall be incumbent on a prize-winner, whenever this is possible, to give a public lecture on a…

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Nominations

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 Rudolf Eucken Nominated on 1 occasion for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 3 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Rudolf Eucken – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Nominations

The Nobel Peace Prize 1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer Nominated on 51 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 20 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Fredrik Bajer – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Nominations

The Nobel Peace Prize 1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer Nominated on 25 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 3 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Klas Pontus Arnoldson – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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