Chapter 96 Ending in 1901 (Please Subscribe!)

It was the end of December 1901. With the efforts of a group of European professors and scientists, the specific winners of the Victoria Prize were finally determined before the new year.

There were many different opinions on the selection of this Victoria Prize, but there was little controversy after the final selection results came out.

It is worth mentioning that the first Nobel Prize, which was supposed to be announced in December, has no news.

Although it is not clear what the reason is, even after the list of winners of the Victoria Prize was released, there was still no news about the Nobel Prize.

This is also good news for the Victoria Prize. At least one less competitor can make the Victoria Prize more famous.

The winner of the first Victoria Prize in Physics was Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a German, a very famous physicist, and also a professor of physics and director of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Munich.

Wilhelm Roentgen won the Physics Prize based on his discovery of X-rays. This invention is even regarded as the beginning of the prelude to the 20th century physics revolution, and Wilhelm Roentgen is also one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century.

The winner of the Victoria Prize in Chemistry is the Dutch scientist Van Hove. He deservedly won the Chemistry Prize for his work on chemical kinetics and the law of osmotic pressure.

The Victoria Prize for Medicine was won by German bacteriologist and immunologist Behring. Behring discovered diphtheria antitoxin and successfully used animal immune serum to treat diphtheria for the first time. He was one of the founders of serum therapy.

He used diphtheria antitoxin serum to treat children with diphtheria with great success, and the therapy was also promoted, greatly reducing the mortality rate of diphtheria.

It is precisely because of this contribution that Behring was hailed as the savior of children.

Even in history, he developed tetanus immune serum, which was used for injuries sustained on the battlefield.

In terms of academic achievements, Behring can even rival the pioneers of bacteriology L. Pasteur and Koch.

The Victoria Prize for Literature was awarded to the French writer Sully Prudhomme. As the saying goes, there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. There is actually not much controversy about other awards, but there are different opinions in literature.

However, Sully Prudhomme's works such as "Fate", "Happiness", "Eyes" and other essays and "On Art", "Poetic Fragments" and other works made him the final winner of the literature award.

The winner of the Victoria Prize for Mathematics is one of the greatest mathematicians in France, Jules Henri Poincare.

Poincare is recognized as a leading mathematician in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the last person after Gauss who has comprehensive knowledge of mathematics and its applications.

He is one of the greatest mathematicians in France, as well as a theoretical scientist and philosopher of science.

Poincare made many creative contributions to mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics, and proposed the Poincare conjecture, which is one of the most famous problems in mathematics.

The last award is the Victoria Design Award. This award is prepared for any design in any industry, and it was finally decided on Diesel's diesel engine.

Diesel's diesel engine can not only use gasoline and diesel as energy, but also use some unexpected things as energy, which is one of the important factors for winning the design award.

Of course, it was largely because Diesel chose to go to Australia, which made General Manager David somewhat biased when making the decision.

In short, no matter what, all six awards of the first Victorian Lecture have been announced. They only need to wait until the beginning of the new year to be awarded in Australia, and these winners can receive a bonus of 50,000 pounds each.

Last year, because Arthur went to Europe, he did not have time to attend the government's report meeting at the end of the year, and the meeting could only be postponed to the beginning of the second year.

This year Arthur finally caught up, and the meeting was held smoothly.

In general, the process is the same as last year. After Prime Minister Evan made an overall report, each department made a detailed report, and Arthur commented and decided on the tasks and plans for the next year.

In general, Australia's development in 1901 was much faster than in 1900, both in economy and industry.

First of all, the industrial situation, because of the start of the industrial railway plan, the Ministry of Industry had to speed up the construction of industrial zones and expand the scale of existing steel mills.

This also led to a current situation, that is, Australia's steel production has been rising steadily.

At the beginning of 1901, Australia's steel and iron production were 13,000 tons and 19,000 tons respectively.

By the end of the year, steel production had reached 61,000 tons and 93,000 tons respectively.

Although it was still only a fraction of the European powers, it was already a small scale compared to most non-power countries.

To this end, Australia also invested more than 20,000 indigenous people in the industry, and at least hundreds of indigenous people were killed or injured.

However, this amount of steel production was still too little for the total steel demand required for railway construction, which to a certain extent slowed down the speed of railway construction.

In addition to the substantial increase in steel production, along with the construction of the industrial zone and Arthur's investment of 20 million pounds, the industrial zone has opened dozens of factories of various sizes, most of which are joint ventures between the government and the royal family, and a few are private enterprises supported by royal funds.

The entire industrial zone currently has nearly 50 factories, with more than 10,000 jobs and at least 10,000 construction jobs.

This has made a considerable contribution to improving Australia's per capita income and economic level. After all, these jobs are highly paid.

In 1901, Australia's population also saw a significant increase.

From 3,867,100 to 3,996,200, a total increase of 129,100.

The population growth rate was close to 3.3%, with about 49,000 newborns, 21,000 deaths, and more than 100,000 immigrants.

The number of newborns increased by more than 10,000 over the previous year, because Australia's per capita income level has also increased by more than one pound, reaching more than 10 pounds.

The immigration aspect is even more gratifying. In 1901, the immigrant population exceeded 100,000, of which there were about 40,000 immigrants from the British Empire, most of whom were from England and Ireland. There were also more than 40,000 German immigrants from all over Germany.

The remaining 10,000 people are from other European countries, including France, Spain, Italy, Austria-Hungary and other countries.

Compared with the 60,000 immigrants last year, there has been a significant increase. This is also due to the formal implementation of the immigration treaty with the United Kingdom and Germany, and there is hope that this high level of growth will be maintained in the future.

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