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The 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 of 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 Award.
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.
总的来说，1901年相比于1900年，澳大利亚的发展要快许多，无论是经济还是工业，都已经小有规模。
首先是工业情况，因为工业铁路计划的开始，工业部不得不加快工业区的建设，扩大现有钢铁厂的规模。
这也导致了一个现状，那就是澳大利亚钢铁产量的节节攀升。
在1901年初，澳大利亚的钢和铁产量分别为13000吨和19000吨。
而到了年底，钢铁产量已经分别达到了61000吨和93000吨。
虽然仍然只是欧洲列强国家的一个零头，但相比于大部分非列强国家来说，已经算是小有规模了。
为此，澳大利亚在工业方面也投入了超过两万名土著，并且已经有了至少数百土著的伤亡。
不过，这点钢铁产量对于铁路建设所需要的总钢铁需求来说还是太少，一定程度上也降低了铁路建设的速度。
除了钢铁产量的大幅度增加之外，伴随着工业区的建设，以及阿瑟两千万英镑的投入，工业区已经开办了大大小小数十家工厂，大部分都是政府和王室合营的企业，少数是获得了王室资金支持的私营企业。
整个工业区目前一共拥有将近五十家工厂，一共诞生了超过一万个工人岗位和至少一万个建设岗位。
这对于提升澳大利亚的人均收入和经济水平有着相当高的贡献，毕竟这些岗位都是收入颇高的香饽饽。
1901年一整年，澳大利亚的人口也迎来不小的增加。
从三百八十六万七千一百人，增长到了三百九十九万六千两百人，一共增加了十二万九千一百人。
人口增长率接近3.3%，其中新生儿大约有四万九千人，死亡人口两万一千人，外来移民超过十万。
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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