Les Prix Nobel en 1914-1918.

137 pp, 1 leaf, 9 pp [von Laue], 14 pp [Richards], 9 pp [Barkla], 12 pp [Willstätter], 14 pp [Bárány]; plates. Original wrappers. Wrappers are slightly foxed and soiled. Unopened. Very Good. First Edition. Although the title includes the year 1918, the last year represented in this volume is 1917. Contains the five Nobel Lectures by Max von Laue, Theodore Richards, Charles Barkla, Richard Willstätter, and Robert Bárány. Max von Laue was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals". Theodore William Richards was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1914 "in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements". Charles Glover Barkla was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917 "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements". Richard Martin Willstätter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1915 "for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll". Robert Bárány was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1914 "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus". The Nobel lectures by von Laue, Willstätter, and Bárány are in German. The Nobel lectures by Richards and Barkla are in English. Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". Romain Rolland was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings". Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1916 "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature". Karl Adolph Gjellerup shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals". Henrik Pontoppidan shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark". …