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.
Folio Prize was announced 21 March. William Fiennes was Chair of the jury comprising "The Observer" writer Rachel Cooke and writers Mohsin Hamid, AM Homes, and Deborah Levy. No prize. The shortlisted was announced in early April 2017. It was the first year non-fiction was included in the running. The winner was announced May 25. The shortlist was announced in late March 2018. The winner was announced 8 May. Folio Prize The Rathbones Folio Prize, previously known as the Folio Prize and The Literature Prize, is a literary award that was sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society for its first