12/10/1913 AD awarded
Peace Prize
Henri La Fontaine, won because "he was the effective leader of the peace movement in Europe"
Literature
On Nov 11, Tagore is catapulted into fame as news of the award reaches him in Santiniketan.
Tagore was the first non-European to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature and second non-European to receive a Nobel Prize after Theodore Roosevelt.
Physics
Kamerlingh Onnes won for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium"
Subjects Who or What awarded?
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Rabindranath Tagore (Robindronath Thakur) Bengali polymath – poe...
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Nobel Prize An annual prize given in...
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