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Major Events of 1918

 

Sports

World Series: Boston Red Sox vs. Philadelphia Philies Series: 4-2

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
HABER, FRITZ, Germany, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Fritz-Haber-Institut) fŸr physikalische Chemie und Electrochemie, Berlin-Dahlem, b. 1868, d. 1934: "for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements"

Literature
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace
The prize money for 1918 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physiology or Medicine
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics
PLANCK, MAX KARL ERNST LUDWIG, Germany, Berlin University, b. 1858, d. 1947: "in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Jesse Lynch Williams... "Why Marry"

Fiction
Ernest Poole... "His Family"

History
James Ford Rhodes... "A History of the Civil War"

Public Service
"New York Times"