When and to whom, first Nobel prize was given? What discovery had been made by that scientist?

Question

Who won a Nobel prize in 1918 "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta", established a major Law of Radiation and sparked the development of Quantum Theory from 1900?

Answer 1

The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901 as follows .

Physics Prize - Wilhelm Röntgen for discovery of X-rays
Chemistry Prize - Jacobus van't Hoff for his contributions in chemical thermodynamics
Litterature - Sully Prudhomme
Physiology or Medicine Prize - German physiologist and microbiologist Emil von Behring for research on antitoxin to treat diphtheria.