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.
Avalon (Sully Erna album) with first-week sales of nearly 14,000 copies. Note Avalon (Sully Erna album) Avalon is the first solo studio album by American rock musician Sully Erna, released on September 14, 2010. "Avalon" is a combination of work that took Sully Erna almost seven years to complete. In October 2006, "Launch Radio Networks" reported that Sully Erna has started working on his solo album. Although he wasn't exactly sure what shape it will take, Erna told "Launch Radio Networks" that "I've been putting some thought into it," he said. "I actually have some stuff that I'm doing on the side right now.