Word: hess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish Royal Academy of Science awarded its 1936 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to a profound student of molecular structure, Professor Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye, 52, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. The Prize for Physics was divided between a pioneer cosmic ray researcher, Professor Victor Franz Hess, 53, of Austria's Innsbruck University, and 31-year-old Professor Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, discoverer of a fundamental particle of matter, the positive electron. Prizeman Debye will receive about $40,000, Prizemen Anderson & Hess each half that...
...Hess was the first man to see clearly that the cosmic rays were cosmic-that is, that they did not come from the earth or the atmosphere. Enthusiastic Austrians once called this mysterious radiation "Hess Rays," just as an enthusiastic U. S. scientist later called them "Millikan Rays." Cosmic rays, as almost everyone now knows, bombard Earth continuously from every direction in the sky. No one knew this when the 20th Century opened. About that time it was observed that some sort of radiation from somewhere was constantly ionizing the air in electroscopes. Some theorists thought the source was radioactive...
Four Nazi Years. As usual the Party Congress was not opened by Leader Hitler who sat in the audience, but by his apple-cheeked deputy leader Rudolf Hess. As usual the Jew-baiting Nürnberg Nazi Boss, brutal Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, glad-handed the delegates. And as usual the annual Proclamation-in effect a State of the Nation speech-written by Adolf Hitler was delivered by Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi Leader, a true Teuton orator whose rasping pugnacious voice sounds almost exactly like Der Führer...
Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, a high-strung Mohammedan with a natural flair for obstetrics, won his brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...
...Myra Hess, the renowned English planist, is to give her annual Boston concert in Jordan Hall on Sunday afternoon. Her interpretation of music is absolutely unique, and through a simple and unaffected approach to every piece in her repertoire, she succeeds in creating a musical atmosphere in which humility is superbly blended with a complete understanding. Many a pianist surpasses her in sheer ability and virtuosity, but few can hope to give such complete satisfaction to their audiences...