>Sports Champions
Golf U.S. Open Winner: Willie Anderson Score: 314 Course: Myopia Hunt Club Location: Hamilton, MA
World Series Champs: New York Giants vs. Philadelphia A's Series: 4-1
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
VON BAEYER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH WILHELM ADOLF, Germany, Munich University, b.1835, d. 1917: "in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"
Literature
SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK, Poland, b. 1846, d. 1916: "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer"
Peace
VON SUTTNER, BARONESS BERTHA SOPHIE FELICITA nŽe COUNTESS KINSKY von CHINIC und TETTAU, Austria, b. 1843, d. 1914: Writer. Hon. President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne. Author of "Die Waffen Nieder" (Lay Down Your Arms).
Physiology or Medicine
KOCH, ROBERT, Germany, Institut fŸr Infektions-Krankheiten (Institute for Infectious Diseases), Berlin, b. 1843, d. 1910: "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis"
Physics
LENARD, PHILIPP EDUARD ANTON, Germany, Kiel University, b. 1862 (in Pressburg, then Hungary), d. 1947: "for his work on cathode rays"
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