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Died. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 76, physicist, inventor, longtime (1901-31) professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, onetime Serbian shepherd boy; of uremic poisoning following anemia and influenza; in Manhattan. Chief inventions: an inductance coil for long distance telephones; X-ray technique which shortened the exposure time from an hour to a few seconds; a wireless tuning device to overcome interference; an electrolytic rectifier to handle high-frequency signals...
...unable, because of old age and illness, to work out his crop. A physician prescribed for his ailment, but the man could not buy the medicine, and no relief agency would supply it. A four-year-old girl in the family died at the end of the year of anemia. The tenant moved several miles away to another farm, but after several weeks the landowner decided that he was too old and ill to work a crop on a tenant-farmer basis, or on any other basis, and he was evicted...
...rooms a six-year-old boy licked the paper bag the meat had been brought in. His legs were scarcely any larger than a medium-sized dog's leg, and his belly was as large as that of a 130-pound woman's. Suffering from rickets and anemia, his legs were unable to carry him for more than a dozen steps at a time; suffering from malnutrition, his belly was swollen several times its normal size. His face was bony and white. He was starving to death...
...Henderson in Oslo, King Gustaf V of Sweden awarded the other Nobel winners: Literature, scrubby-bearded Italian Dramatist Luigi Pirandello (TIME, Nov. 19); Medicine, split between three U. S. physicians, Drs. George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy and George Hoyt Whipple who found that a liver diet helped pernicious anemia (TIME, Nov. 5) ; Chemistry, Professor Harold C. Urey of Columbia University for his discovery of "heavy hydrogen" (TIME...
Standing with three others before King Gustav of Sweden, two Harvard men, George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine, and William P. Murphy '20, instructor in Medicine, receive today the 1934 Nobel Prize, awarded them for their discovery of liver extract as a remedy for pernicious anemia...