US Open Golf: Walter Hagen Score: 301 Course: Brae Burn CC Location: West Newton, MA
World Series: Cincinnati Reds vs. Chicago White Sox Series: 5-3
Chemistry
The prize money for 1919 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
Literature
SPITTELER, CARL FRIEDRICH GEORG, Switzerland, b. 1845, d. 1924: "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring"
Peace
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America. Founder of the SociŽtŽ des Nations (League of Nations)
Physiology or Medicine
BORDET, JULES, Belgium, Brussels University, b. 1870, d. 1961: "for his discoveries relating to immunity"
Physics
STARK, JOHANNES, Germany, Greifswald University, b. 1874, d. 1957: "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields"
Fiction: Booth Tarkington... "The Magnificient Ambersons"
Public Service: "Milwaukee Journal"
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