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-André Peyre Sully-André Peyre Sully-André Peyre (1890-1961) was a French poet and essayist. He wrote both in Provençal and in French. He won a prize from the Académie française. Sully-André Peyre was born on 9 September 1890 in Le Cailar, Gard, France. He grew up in Mouriès, Bouches-du-Rhône. Peyre published "Lou Secret", a Provençal paper in 1918. A year later, in 1919, he founded "La Regalido", another Provençal journal, with Elie Vianes. He was the founder and editor of "Marsyas", a Provençal review, from 1921 to 1961. Peyre was the author of many poetry collections and essays. He wrote both in Provençal