THE NOBEL PRIZE.
AWARDED TO A DANE. By Telegraph—Press Association-—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. STOCKHOLM. October 26. A Danish professor. Neils Bohr, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Nobel Prizes are awarded from the income of a fund bequeathed to trustees for distribution to those who have contributed most largely to the common good, and is divided into five shares, which are devoted to workers in the domains of physics, chemistry, medicine, or physiology, literature, and preservation of peace. The testator was the Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, who died in 1896. leaving a fortune of about £1.750,000. The awards are valued at about £7500 each.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 27 October 1922, Page 5
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