December 10 In Swedish History

The first Nobel prizes are awarded in Stockholm at the Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien. 

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  First Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff (1852-1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist, best known for his discoveries in chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure, and stereochemistry. Van 't Hoff's work in these subjects helped found the discipline of physical chemistry as it is today.

• December 10 In Swedish History,
  1901: The first Nobel prizes are awarded in Stockholm at the Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien (the Royal Swedish Academy of Music). The Nobel Committees, once they had its guidelines in place, had begun collecting nominations for the inaugural prizes.
  A list of preliminary candidates was sent out, and then, on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, the first set of Nobel Prizes was awarded to the following recipients:
  Chemistry: Jacobus H. van’t Hoff
  Physics: Wilhelm C. Röntgen
  Physiology or Medicine: Emil A. von Behring
  Literature: Rene F.A. Sully Prudhomme
  Peace: Jean H. Dunant and Frédéric Passy

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  First Nobel Prize in Physics: Wilhelm C. Röntgen (1845-1923) was a German physicist who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays.

• You'll find some footage with and on this year's winners at SVT, Swedish television http://www.svt.se/nobel/ or the official website of the Nobel Foundation: www.nobelprize.org

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  First Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Emil A. von Behring (1854-1917) was a German physiologist, who received the Nobel Prize or developing a serum therapy against diphtheria.

• We covered this year's winners here: Nobel Prizes 2012

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  First Nobel Prize in Literature: René François Armand Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) was a French poet and essayist, who received the Nobel Prize "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect".