Several Americans in the 1920s took home this most
prestigious international award.
Charles G. Dawes: Peace, 1925 (for his work on the
post-Great War reparations plan; Dawes also served as U.S. vice-president under
Coolidge, as well as being a diplomat and banker)
Arthur H. Compton: Physics, 1927 (for demonstrating
that light was both a wave and a particle; he would later contribute to the
Manhattan Project and serve as a university chancellor)
Frank B. Kellogg: Peace, 1929 (for his leadership in
producing the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a multi-national treaty endorsing “the
renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy”; Kellogg also served
in the U.S. Senate and as secretary of state)
Below: Kellogg with Pres. Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace.