Chapter 96 Ending in 1901 (Please subscribe!)

Time came to the end of December 1901. With the efforts of a group of European professors and scientists, the specific candidates for the Victoria Prize were finally determined before the new year.

There were different opinions during the selection of this Victoria Award, but after the final selection results came out, there was still very little controversy.

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

Although it is unclear what the reason is, there is still no news about the Nobel Prize even after the list of winners of the Victoria Prize was released.

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

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

Wilhelm Röntgen won the physics prize for his discovery of X-rays. This invention is even regarded as the beginning of the physics revolution in the 20th century, and Wilhelm Roentgen was also one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century.

The winner of the Victoria Prize in Chemistry is Dutch scientist Van Hove. He deservedly received the Chemistry Prize for his laws of chemical kinetics and osmotic pressure.

The Victoria Medal in 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 promoted, greatly reducing the mortality rate from diphtheria.

It is precisely because of this contribution that Bellin is known as the savior of children.

Even historically, he developed a tetanus immune serum that was used for wounds sustained on the battlefield.

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

The Victoria Prize for Literature was awarded to French writer Sully Prudhomme. As the saying goes, literature does not come first and martial arts does not come second. In fact, the controversy over other awards is not that big. In terms of literature, everyone has their own opinions.

However, Sully Prudhomme's works such as "Fate", "Happiness", "Eye" and other essays and "On Art", "Fragments of Poetry" and other works made him the final winner of the Literature Prize.

The winner of the Victoria Prize for Mathematics was one of France's greatest mathematicians, Jules Henri Poincaré.

Pang Jialai is recognized as a leading mathematician in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the last person after Gauss to have comprehensive knowledge of mathematics and its applications.

He was one of France's greatest mathematicians, as well as a theoretical scientist and philosopher of science.

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

The last award is the Victoria Design Award. This award is given to any design in any industry, and it ultimately went to Diesel's diesel engine.

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

Of course, this was largely due to the fact that Diesel chose to go to Australia, which gave Controller David some bias in his decision.

In short, no matter what, all six awards of the first Victoria Lecture have been announced. They only need to wait until the awards are held in Australia at the beginning of the new year. These winners will receive a bonus of 50,000 pounds each.

Last year, due to Arthur's trip 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 next year.

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

Generally speaking, the process is the same as last year. After Prime Minister Evan gives an overall report, each department will make a detailed report, and Arthur will comment and decide on the tasks and plans for the next year.

In general, Australia developed much faster in 1901 than in 1900, and both its economy and industry were already small-scale.

The first is the industrial situation. Since 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 plants.

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

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

To this end, Australia has invested more than 20,000 indigenous people in industry, and there have been at least hundreds of indigenous casualties.

However, this amount of steel production is still too small for the total steel demand required for railway construction, and it has also slowed down the speed of railway construction to a certain extent.

In addition to the substantial increase in steel production, with the construction of the industrial zone and Arthur's investment of 20 million pounds, dozens of factories of various sizes have been opened in the industrial zone, most of which are joint ventures between the government and the royal family. , a few are private companies that have received financial support from the royal family.

The entire industrial zone currently has nearly fifty factories, creating more than 10,000 worker positions 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 high-paying jobs.

Throughout 1901, Australia's population also experienced a considerable increase.

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

The population growth rate is close to 3.3%, of which there are approximately 49,000 newborns, 21,000 deaths, and more than 100,000 immigrants.

The number of newborns increased by more than 10,000 compared with the previous year. This is because Australia's per capita income level has also increased by more than one pound, and has reached more than ten pounds.

The immigration aspect is even more gratifying. In 1901, the immigrant population exceeded 100,000, including nearly 40,000 immigrants from the British Empire, most of whom were English and Irish. There are also more than 40,000 German immigrants, coming from all over Germany.

The remaining more than 10,000 people came from other European countries, including France, Spain, Italy, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and other countries.

Compared with the previous year's immigrant population of more than 60,000, there has been a considerable increase. This is also due to the formal implementation of the immigration treaties with the United Kingdom and Germany, and it is hoped that such a high level of growth will be maintained in the future.

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