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...charitable maintenance of mentally deficient children. The Nobel Prize, established in 1896 by the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, consists of five annual awards?one of them for "idealistic literature." Notable recipients have been Kipling, Maeterlinck, Tagore, Knut Hamsun, Anatole France, Yeats, Shaw, Henri Bergson...
...prize, held over from last year, went to French Philosopher & Author Henri Bergson. Philosopher Bergson, bedridden, in Paris, remarked "I am greatly honored.'' Achievement: akinetic system of philosophy which rejects all generalizations except the concept that reality is neither more nor less than the incessant evolutions of thought-time...
...Henri Bergson", Professor Morize, Harvard...
...Henri Bergson", Professor Morize, Harvard...
...radium, Dr. Coolidge would need about 2,000,000 volts of electricity. To get beta rays as penetrating as those from radium, he would need 3,000,000 volts. If he could create such voltages and if he could direct them properly, he would be, according to Philosopher Henri Bergson, at the heart of the world. Dr. Coolidge has succeeded in using 900,000 volts effectively. How he worked, he described to the engineers at Manhattan last week after receiving his latest medal...