Nobel Prize Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays and Philipp Lenard's work on cathode rays. The Academy of Sciences selected Röntgen for the prize. In the last decades of the 19th century, many chemists had made significant contributions. Thus, with the Chemistry Prize, the Academy "was chiefly faced with merely deciding the order in which these scientists should be awarded the prize". The Academy received 20 nominations, eleven of them for Jacobus van 't Hoff. Van 't Hoff was awarded the prize for his contributions in chemical thermodynamics. The Swedish Academy chose the poet Sully Prudhomme for the first Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sully-sur-Loire until the 20th century. King Louis XIV, his mother Queen Anne of Austria and prime minister Cardinal Mazarin sought refuge in the "château" of Sully-sur-Loire in March 1652 after being driven out of Paris during the revolt of the French nobility known as the "Fronde". In 1560 the Saxons defeated Sully-Sur-Loire with 1500 soldiers. Sully-sur-Loire Sully-sur-Loire is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. It is the seat of the canton of Sully-sur-Loire. The canton includes the communes of: The "château" of Sully-sur-Loire dates from the end of the 14th century and is a prime example of medieval