Rabindranath Tagore did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Henri La Fontaine was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his unparalleled contribution to the organisation of peaceful internationalism. Henri La Fontaine, Full name: Henri La FontaineBorn: 22 April 1854, Brussels, BelgiumDied: 14 May 1943, Brussels, BelgiumDate awarded: 10 December 1913 Socialist, international law expert, parliament member Henri La Fontaine was the first socialist to be…

Henri La Fontaine and Ludwig Quidde at the opening session of the XXIIIrd Universal Peace Congress in the Reichstag Room, Berlin, 1924. Henri La Fontaine and his wife Mathilde Lhoest in the dining room of their house on the Vergote Square, 1932. Henri La Fontaine at the piano, 1930. Henri La Fontaine in front of…

Our immune system does a remarkable job of protecting us against the harmful effects of infectious agents that cause disease. However, every so often this defence mechanism can be made to turn on itself, triggering a violent, often fatal reaction against its host. Understanding how the immune system can be prompted to behave in such…

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent…

Charles Richet’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1913 (in French) Altesses Royales, Mesdames et Messieurs, La première pensée de ceux que vous avez honorés de cette haute récompense (assurément la plus glorieuse qu’un savant puisse recevoir), c’est un sentiment de reconnaissance, si profond, si dominateur, qu’il envahit tout, et ne laisse…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1913 Anaphylaxis It is not without emotion that I address this assembly on the experiments that have brought me, through the most gracious favour of the , the highest reward that a scientist has the right to hope for. I ask your indulgence in speaking of my own research, as I…

Henri La Fontaine did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

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Selected works in English Gitanjali (Song Offerings) / with an Introduction by W. B. Yeats. – London, 1913 Glimpses of Bengal Life : Being Short Stories from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore / translated by Rajani Ranjan Sen. – Madras ; Chittagong, 1913 The Gardener. – London : Macmillan, 1913 Sâdhanâ : The Realisation of…