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...your account (TIME, Nov. 26) of the award to Dr. Urey of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry you mention "a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building" (of Columbia University). Are you sure it was a woodcock? That bird has some amazing traits, but the craziest among them would not, I believe, have been seen (much less captured) in such a foreign locality, even though the sill were old and wormy...
...second-rate product, a man who was just not good enough to get an A.B. Anyone who feels even the slightest respect for the work done at this College in such subjects as organic chemistry or geology, cannot but wonder at the fatuous regulation which, grants a B.S. award to the graduate of four years of English Literature courses, and insists on the A.B. for a man who has spent his college career in Mallinckrodt or Agassiz, but who has passed Latin Cp. 4 on his College Board Examinations...
...greats as "France's" Maeterlinck and more especially Sweden's" Björnson serves only to accentuate the injustice done that staunch English patriot Eamon De Valera. Surely his contributions in word and deed to the development of a better understanding between neighboring people call for the award of a Nobel prize, that for the promotion of peace being perhaps the most appropriate...
...Urey, 41, is the third U. S. scientist to receive the world's richest prize (about $41,000) in Chemistry.* No award for Chemistry was made last year. The Physics prize will not be awarded this year...
...symbol D. Now every chemist in the land knows that D2O means heavy water, that D is the symbol for the heavy isotope of hydrogen which Dr. Urey identified in the autumn of 1931 (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) and subsequently named deuterium. Undoubtedly in considering last week's award the Swedish Academy took cognizance of the fact that no discovery in the physical sciences in recent years has stimulated more widespread research than...