Nobel Prize Collection (page 2)

Vitalism: Henri Bergson, French philosopher, early 20th century, (1956). Bergson (1859-1941) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. From the Picture Post Library

Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist, 1932 (1956). In 1896 Thomson (1856-1940), began experiments on cathode rays, proving that they are particles with a negative charge and much smaller than an atom

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1917. Marie (1867-1934) and her husband Pierre Curie continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

Sully Prudhomme, French poet, 1905. Rene Francois Armand Sully-Prudhomme, (1839-1907) was awarded the first Nobel prize for Literature in 1901

Octave Mirbeau, French writer, 1905. Mirbeau (1848-1917) was a journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright. His writings have been translated into thirty languages

Henri Bergson, French philosopher, 1910. Bergson (1859-1941) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920

Pierre Curie, French chemist and physicist, 1899. Curie (1859-1906) was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1903, jointly with his wife, Marie, and Henri Becquerel

Anatole France, French writer, 1903. Anatole France was the pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault (1844-1924). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921

Henri Becquerel, French physicist, late 19th or early 20th century. In 1896 Becquerel (1852-1908) discovered that uranium, when placed on a sealed, light-tight photographic plate, exposed the plate

Romain Rolland, French dramatist, author, art historian and mystic, 1921. Rolland (1866-1944) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915

Louis de Broglie, French physicist, 1933. De Broglies (1892-1987) work on a new branch of quantum physics called wave mechanics won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929

Aristide Briand, French politician, 1921. Briand served as Prime Minister of France on several occasions between 1909 and 1929

Pierre and Marie Curie, French physicists, 1906. Polish-born Marie Curie and her husband Pierre continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

Frederic Mistral, French writer, 1906. Mistral (1830-1914) was a poet and a lexicographer of Occitan, the language of south-west France. In 1904 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Frederic Passy, French economist and writer, 1901. Passy (1822-1912) shared the first Nobel Peace prize with Henri Dunant in 1901

Viscount Cecil, British statesman, 1935. Artist: Edmond Xavier Kapp
Viscount Cecil, British statesman, 1935. Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood was a delegate to the League of Nations

Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German novelist and short story writer, early 20th century. Mann was also a social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist, early 20th century. For a serious writer, Hemingway achieved a rare cult-like popularity during his lifetime

Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish-born French physicist, 1926. In 1898, Curie and her husband Pierre discovered two new elements, polonium and radium

Anatole France, The great French ironist, 1923. Artist: Henri Manuel
Anatole France, The great French ironist, 1923. Published in The Outline of Literature, by John Drinkwater, London, 1923

Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist and publicist, late 19th century, (c1920). Portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)

A Marconi wireless operator receiving wireless messages as the Empress of Britain crosses the Atlantic, c1934. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), an Italian physicist and inventor

Portrait of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, c1920. In 1888 Nansen (1861-1930) made the first crossing of Greenland. He is best known in exploration terms for his three year expedition (1893-1896)

Alphonse Laveran, French physician, 1917. In 1880 Laveran (1845-1922) made the discovery that malaria were caused by protozoa

George Bernard Shaw, Anglo-Irish playwright, 1913. Artist: Lizzie Caswall Smith
George Bernard Shaw, Anglo-Irish playwright, 1913. Shaw (1856-1950) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Supplement to The Bookman, 1913

Pierre Curie, French physicist, (c1924). Pierre Curie (1859-1906) was a pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity

Anatole France, French poet, journalist and novelist, 1870s. Artist: Nadar
Anatole France, French poet, journalist and novelist, 1870s. Anatole France was the pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault (1844-1924). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, c1900s(?). Artist: Nadar
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, c1900s(?). Mechnikov (1845-1916) continued the work of Louis Pasteur, specialising in the study of the immune system

Ivan A Bunin, Russian author, c1937. Bunin (1870-1953) was a short story writer and novelist. He was not a supporter of the Bolsheviks and left Russia after the Revolution

Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist, 1902. In 1895, while professor of physics at Wurzburg, (Rontgen (1845-1913) discovered X-rays, originally called Rontgen rays

Francis Harry Compton Crick, British microbiologist, c1962. Francis Crick (1916-2004) discovered the molecular structure of DNA

Ernst Boris Chain, German born British biochemist, c1945. Chain (1906-1979), with Howard Florey, purified penicillin. He shared the 1945 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Florey

Henri Becquerel, French physicist, c1890s. Artist: Nadar
Henri Becquerel, French physicist, c1890s. In 1896 Becquerel (1852-1908) discovered that uranium, when placed on a sealed, light-tight photographic plate, exposed the plate

Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin, 1945
Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin. Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) discovered penicillin in 1928

Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, 20th century. Millikan (1868-1953) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his determination of the charge of the electron

William Henry Bragg, English physicist, early 20th century
William Henry Bragg, English physicist, 20th century. The founder of X-ray crystallography, Bragg (1862-1942) is shown here using an X-ray spectrometer

Jacobus Henricus Van t Hoff, Dutch chemist, 1902. In 1901 Van t Hoff (1852-1911) became the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Emil von Behring, German immunologist and bacteriologist, 1902. In 1901 von Behring (1854-1917) was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his development of a serum for

Mr Punch thanking Marconi for wireless telegraphy which was saving lives at sea, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Mr Punch thanking Marconi for wireless telegraphy which was saving lives at sea, 1913. Marconi (1874-1937) discovered a way in which waves could be used to send messages from one place to another

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and inventor and pioneer of wireless telegraphy, 1906. Marconi (1874-1937) discovered a way in which waves could be used to send messages from one place to

Howard Walter Florey, Australian pathologist, c1945. For his work on the isolation and purification of the first antibiotic, Penicillin

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist, c1908
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), New Zealand atomic physicist, c1908. Awarded 1908 Nobel prize for chemistry. Is considered by many to have laid the groundwork for the development of modern nuclear

Albert Einstein and other physicists at Paul Ehrenfests home, Leyden, Netherlands. Einstein (1879-1955) (left) with Paul Ehrenfest, Paul Langevin (1872-1946) (centre)

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1929. Marie (1867-1934) and her husband Pierre Curie continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1925. Marie Curie (1867-1934) in her office at the Radium Institute, Paris, of which she was director of research from 1918-1934

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, in her laboratory, 1912. Marie (1867-1934) and her husband Pierre Curie continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1931. Marie (1867-1934) and her husband Pierre Curie continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

Pierre Curie, French chemist, when Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne, 1906
Pierre Curie, French chemist, in the lecture theatre when Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne, 1906. Curie (1859-1906) was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1903, jointly with his wife, Marie

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