Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a document is wholly grotesque, a Pact of Qualifications, not a Pact of Peace. Yet Aristide Briand has won the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), and his policies are the epitome of pacifism. Only in unprecedented circumstances would he send forth such a monstrosity as the Treaty of last week...
...Harry Duncan McGowan, K. B. E., vice chairman. He is chairman and managing director of Nobel Industries...
Died. Theodore William Richards, 60, famed chemist, winner of the Nobel chemistry prize in 1914 for his table of atomic weights, head of the Harvard department of chemistry since 1903; following a brief illness; in Cambridge...
Professor Richards received in 1914 the greatest honor a scientist may be accorded, the Nobel Prize...
...degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department of the Institute of Experimental Medicine at St. Petersburg (Leningrad). From then on, his path was undeviating, scrupulous, relentless. His "Work of the Digestive Glands" was crowned by the Nobel Prize in 1904. Having mastered the mechanics of digestion he started speculating on psychic stimulation, the power of suggestion on the lower organs. He conditioned various animals to a bell, to a light, to a color, to the beats of a metronome, and in each case, after appearing with the food...