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IN reply to an inquiry as to the award of the Nobel prizes, Prof. Svante Arrhenius has kindly sent us the following information:—(1) Prize for medicine: awarded on October 21, the birthday of Dr. Alfr. Nobel, by the Carolinian Institute (faculty of medicine) in Stockholm to Dr. Allvar Gullstrand (born 1862), professor of ophthalmology in the University of Upsala, Sweden, for his investigations in physiological optics. (2) Prize for physics: awarded on November 7 by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, to Dr. Willy Wien (born 1864), professor of physics at the University of Wurzburg, Bavaria, for his discoveries regarding the laws of radiation. (3) Prize for chemistry: awarded on November 7 by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, to Mme. Marie Curie (born 1867), professor of physics in the University of Paris (Sorbonne), for her discoveries of the chemical elements radium and polonium, and her investigations regarding their chemical properties. Mme. Curie received, together with her husband, the half of the Nobel prize for physics in 1903 for their investigations regarding the Becquerel rays. (4) Prize for literature: awarded on November 9 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Literature, Stockholm, to Maurice Maeterlinck (born 1862). The prize for work in the cause of peace will probably not be awarded before December 10, the day of Dr. A. Nobel's death, by the Storthing (Parliament) in Christiania, Norway.