THE NOBEL PRIZES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 13

THE NOBEL PRIZES.

The five Nobel prices annually awarded for the most Important discoveries in physics, in chemistry, In physiology or medicine, (or tho most distinguished work in literature, and tho best offort towards tho promotion of waco, hi\Vo been dis(tihutcd for 1906. The ponce priw* goes to the Daronoss fterlha yon fSuttner, whoso novel, "Die Waffon Niedei 1 !" ("Ground Arms I"), is prtid to have resulted in tho establishment of The Hagne Tribunal. To Professor Hi>bovt Koch is awarded tho prisso in medicine for his study of tuberculosis, Adolph yon Beyer wins the prlw In organic chemistry, nnd Ptofeoßor Lonard, of Kiel University, that lor physi. cfll rospareh. Th« literary prize K«irs to llenryk Sienk^wle;!. Out of tho thirty awards so far made, eight have gone to Oennnny, six to Prune*, four to Orenl Britain, three moh to Holland nnd Hwitzerlnnd, two to l!nwi,i, ono ench to Norway, Swrdcu, Don mark, and Kp<n. * "It is Btrntige tlint Ameiiea dorw not apmcflr in the Hut," says ttio A»g««a«t "vVo hnvo meal jihjwnans, xivnt ehoniidtd, prent, — nt Ion 1 -! «o thought we hud. Thrn why don't we u;ci some of Michc folly (hona.iml dollur prizoKf Aren't vo as smnit «b mo think W»M«l'*