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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baker was unable to attend last year's banquet which celebrated the first award and the sist birthday of The American Hebrew. But he attended last week, hailed Archbishop Hanna as "a warrior in the fight against prejudice," hoped that acclaim would "give him the satisfaction which ought to come to even so great and good a man from the admiration and affection of his friends...
...material could be used. 4) Pictures could be no larger than eight inches square, none could be colored. Nearly 3,000,000 pictures were submitted. Finals narrowed down to 282 entries from 47 countries. Cotton Worker Powell won the British national prize of $5,000 and an additional class award of $500. He also won the grand prize of $10,000 and a cash award of $1,000. Beside the money he was given a gold medal and a silver statue of a female figure, draped, holding aloft an actual photographic lens...
...earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States," the income from the fund to be used for Fellowships for British students in American universities and for American students in British universities. This is only the second year of the award; D. D. Lloyd '31, and William Foshay '31, were the Harvard students chosen last year...
...rule says that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry shall be awarded for pure (i. e. uncommercial) research, but heretofore the Swedish Academy of Science has followed a tradition in disregarding commercial success when making the award. Last week the Academy departed from that tradition, awarded the 1931 chemistry prize jointly to two Germans whose outstanding work has been the commercialization of scientific processes developed in research laboratories. They were Professor Carl Bosch of Heidelberg, chairman of the I. G. Farbenindustrie (dye trust)-for his process for large-scale production of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen-and his fellow townsman, Professor Friedrich...
Blocky, bristly Professor Bosch was a collaborator of Dr. Fritz Haber, whose process for extracting nitrogen from the air was recognized by the Nobel award of 1918. To utilize the Haber-process nitrogen Dr. Bosch designed a mechanism for the industrial production of ammonia, combining air-nitrogen with hydrogen under a pressure of 200 atmospheres at a temperature of 500-600° C. in the presence of a catalyst. As manager of the Badische Anilin-& Soda-Fabrik he built the Oppau ammonia works, without which Germany, cut off from nitrate-producing Chile, might have lost...