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.
Henry Sully Henry Sully Henry Sully (1680–1729) was an English clockmaker. He lived for many years in France. He invented a marine clock to determine longitude accurately, a sophisticated pendulum clock. He presented a first "Montre de la Mer" in 1716 to the French Académie des Sciences. He was the first to develop chronometer in Paris. In 1718, Henry Sully established a watch factory in Versailles. He presented two new models in 1723. In 1726, he published "Une Horloge inventée et executée par M. Sulli". His chronometers performed well in calm weather, but not on the high seas. Henry Sully worked with