Word: awarded
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...against fowlpox, smallpox, yellow fever, influenza and typhus fever-is "comparable to ... Louis Pasteur's proof of the germ theory." Another has said that he "richly deserved" a Nobel prize. Last week Dr. Goodpasture, pathologist of Nashville's Vanderbilt University, got a prize-the 1946 Passano Foundation* award ($5,000 cash) for the advancement of medical research...
Wanted: Freedom. Last week, as he stepped up to receive the Passano award in Baltimore's historic Osler Hall of Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Ernest Goodpasture saw an opportunity to expound some theories about research developed in the years on the "Endless Frontier." In a philosophic, rambling and often brilliant address, he deplored the fact that researchers are too often hamstrung by special "projects," are not permitted to follow their own keen noses. Exploratory research, said he, entails relatively great financial risk, but these risks must be met if medicine is to serve humanity and not a social...
...books on Irish ethnology and archaeology, some of which, according to Dr. Wilson, still stand as the best works of their kind. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy as a young man, and some years before his death won, for his historical researches, the highest award the Academy could bestow. He was Ireland's Medical Census Commissioner. The Wilde home was a center of the city's scientific and literary life, and the Wildes themselves were one of the sights of Dublin. As a small boy, George Bernard Shaw saw them at a concert...
...Dispatch); Cartoonist Bruce Russell (Los Angeles Times). History: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s Age of Jackson. Biography: Linnie M. Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness. Play: Lindsay & Grouse's State of the Union. Music: Leo Sowerby's Canticle of the Sun. Novel and poem: no award...
...Lost Weekend. 1945 Academy Award winner (TIME...