The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. Alfred Nobel established in his will that interest income from his fortune was to be allotted each year in five equal parts as prizes to those who had most helped humanity. The first Nobel Prize winners were: Wilhelm C. Roentgen, physics; Jacobus H. van't Hoff, chemistry; Emil A. von Behring, medicine; Rene F. A. Sully-Prudhomme, literature; and Jean H. Dunant, peace.
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