Word: hanse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The dramatic drain of gold from the Bank of England into the Bank of France (TIME, Dec. i et ante) continued last week at quickened tempo, reached $1,750,000 daily. When $5,000,000 of virgin gold arrived in England from South Africa, the French snapped it up, contracted...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy * Opera: Siegfried, by the London Symphony under Albert Coates and Robert Heger, the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like...
Dec. 10-Awarding of the Nobel Prizes; at Stockholm, Sweden. Annual occasion: anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish founder of the $9,000,000 fund for international awards. 1930 recipients: Dr. Hans Fischer, in Chemistry; Sinclair (Babbitt) Lewis, in Literature; Dr. Karl Landsteiner, in Medicine...
(see p. 38), the committee of awards in Stockholm announced two new Nobel men. For their 1930 chemistry choice, they turned to Munich, as they have al ready done five times. This year they chose Herr Doktor Hans Fischer, 49, professor of organic chemistry at the Munich Institute of Technology...
Dr. Hans Fischer achieved his first international fame two years ago. After 17 years of quiet research in his laboratory at Munich, he announced that he had succeeded in synthesizing hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). He used pyrrol, a constituent...