Sully Prudhomme was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature "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".
Émile Boutmy, Essai d'une psychologie politique du peuple anglais au XIXe siècle
Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Der Wahrheitsgehalt der Religion
H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought
Eric Voegelin (January 3)
Jacques Lacan (April 13)
Charles W. Morris (May 23)
Henri Lefebvre (June 16)
André Malraux (November 3)
Werner Heisenberg (December 5)
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