Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between Dr. Arthur Harden of London University and Professor Hans von Euler-Chelpin of Upsala University, Sweden, for their joint research on the enzyme action in the fermentation of sugar; 3) the Physics Prize for 1929, to perhaps the most elite of living scientists, Louis Cesar Victor Maurice, Due de Broglie...
Three of the Due's ancestors were Marshals of France. Victor Claude. Prince de Broglie, his great-great-grandfather, served with Lafayette and Rochambeau in the American Revolution, was a Jacobin in the French Revolution. Opposing Robespierre, the "sea-green incorruptible," he died under the guillotine during The Terror...
...tiny but coveted rosette of the Legion of Honor for his invention of a wireless receiver for submerged submarines. Last week's prize of $46,299 was awarded for his theory of wave mechanics in the problem of atomic constituion. Roughly and as elaborated by other researches, the Due de Broglie's theory is that matter consists of a series of waves as well as of corpuscles...
Threats and rumors of a sensational libel suit refocussed French attention last week on one of the most spectacular figures in the National Assembly, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Senator of France...
...giving these facilities adequate publicity. The high prices of the hotels and the definitely restricted number of their rooms place an obligation upon some Harvard organization to put at the disposal of her visitors some sort of accomodation intermediate between that offered by the study floor and the de Luxe Hotel suite to be reserved two weeks in advance...