| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1915 |
| Number: | 2 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1872 |
| Year, Death: | 1967 |
| Profession: | Journalist, editor, author and lecturer. |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1933 |
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| Motivation: | Angell was nominated for his book "The Great Illusion" (1910). He claimed that it was an illusion that war could be profitable to a nation, and he also maintained that this illusion was going to lead Europe into a state of war. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Three professors of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professors of Philosophy |
| University: | University of Glasgow |
| City: | Glasgow |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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| Comments: |
The nominators were R. Latta, Robert A. Duff and Henry Jones, all of them professors of philosophy at the UniversitY of Glasgow.
They nominated Angell for the prize of 1914, but the nomination letter was sent after the 1st of February. |
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