THE NOBEL PRIZES.
AWARD FOE MEDICINE. By Telecrajrti—Press Association—Oopyricat (Rec. October 23, 5.5 p.m.) Stockholm.. October 22., Tho , Nobel prize for medicine has boon awarded to Dr. A; Kossel, University Professor of Physiology at Heidelberg University, and pro-reetor of tha University. Tho Nobel Foundation is based upon the will of Dr. Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish engineer and chemist, -and inventor o£ dynamite, who died in; 1896, an dlcft part of his great fortune to constitute a fund, tho interest of which, he directed to bo awarded annually in prizes to those persons who shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind during the preceding year. There are five prizes, each worth about .£BOOO, to bo awarded for the most, important discoveries or improvements in: (1) Physics, (2) Chemistry, and (3) Physiology or Medicine; for (4) the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency in tie field ot literature, and (5) for the best effort - towards tho fraternity ofinations and tho promotion of poaco.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 955, 24 October 1910, Page 7
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164THE NOBEL PRIZES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 955, 24 October 1910, Page 7
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