Liljas Anders
Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, Sweden.
Acta Crystallogr A. 2013 Jan;69(Pt 1):10-5. doi: 10.1107/S0108767312031133. Epub 2012 Dec 5.
The Nobel Committees have to follow the nominations submitted for a specific year. During the early phase of X-ray crystallography, a limited number of scientists were active. In 1914 Max von Laue and William Henry Bragg were both nominated and could have been awarded a joint Nobel Prize. However, a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Allvar Gullstrand, was well aware of the activities in the field and strongly recommended that only von Laue should receive the prize since a main contributor, William Laurence Bragg, was not nominated. Next year, when the First World War had started, there were few nominations, but now both Braggs, father and son, were nominated. Gullstrand was very pleased and recommended them both for the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. The rest of the committee agreed and this then became the decision of the Royal Academy for Sciences, Stockholm.
诺贝尔委员会必须遵循特定年份提交的提名。在X射线晶体学的早期阶段，活跃的科学家数量有限。1914年，马克斯·冯·劳厄和威廉·亨利·布拉格都获得了提名，本有可能共同获得诺贝尔奖。然而，诺贝尔物理学委员会的成员阿尔瓦·古尔斯特兰德非常了解该领域的活动，并强烈建议只授予冯·劳厄该奖项，因为主要贡献者威廉·劳伦斯·布拉格未获得提名。次年，第一次世界大战爆发，提名寥寥无几，但此时布拉格父子都获得了提名。古尔斯特兰德非常高兴，并推荐他们二人共同获得1915年诺贝尔物理学奖。委员会的其他成员也表示同意，这随后成为了斯德哥尔摩皇家科学院的决定。
