1909
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Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
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Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Guglielmo Marconi, Karl Ferdinand Braun for the development of wireless telegraphy (radio).
- Chemistry - Wilhelm Ostwald for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, and reaction velocities.
- Medicine - Emil Theodor Kocher for his work on the physiology, pathology, and surgery of the thyroid gland.
- Literature - Selma Lagerlöf ("in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings").
- Peace - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert and Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant.
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