NOBEL PRIZE WINNER.
LONDON, November 30. The gNotel Ptize for Physics has been awarded to Professor J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge 5 (The Nobel Foundation ia based upon the will of Dr Alfred Nobel, the Swedish enginepii and chemist, and inventor of dynamite, who died in 3896, and left part of bis gre&t fortune to constitute a fund, the interest of which he direoted-to be awarded annually in prizes to those persons who shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind during the preceding year. There are five ptizes—-(l) Physios, (2) Chemistry, and (3) Physiology or Medicina; for (4) :he moat' distinguished work 'of an idealistic tendency In the field of literature, and (5) for the {[best effort towards the fraternity of nations and the promotion of peace.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8301, 3 December 1906, Page 5
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128NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8301, 3 December 1906, Page 5
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