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.
Charles Prudhomme Prudhomme, Charles. “The Problem of Suicide in the American Negro,” "The Psychoanalytic Review" 25(2) (April 1938): 187-204. Prudhomme, Charles. “Epilepsy and Suicide,” "The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease" 94(6) (Dec. 1941): 722-731. Prudhomme, Charles. “Reflections on Racism,” "American Journal of Psychiatry" 127(6) (Dec. 1970): 815-817. Prudhomme, Charles, and D.F. Musto. “Historical Perspectives on Mental Health and Racism in the United States,” in Bertram S. Brown, Bernard M. Kramer, and Charles Vert Willie, eds., "Racism and Mental Health: Essays" (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973). Charles Prudhomme Charles Prudhomme, M.D. (1908-1988), an African-American physician and psychoanalyst entered the field of