Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers were vexed to find the Deity so hypocritically invoked by a statesman who recently received the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). They agreed that he had flung a flat defy at Egypt...
Coolidge Tube. In x-ray tubes the electrons popping from the cathode are imprisoned within the tubes. How to get them outside became a problem for scientists. Philip Lenard, Nobel prizewinner for 1905 and now professor at the University of Heidelberg, solved it by placing a thin aluminum "window," one eighth of an inch in diameter, at one end of a tube. Electrons passed through it, but feebly. He used only 30,000 volts of electricity...
Died. Dr. Johannes Fibiger, 60, famed for research on cancer, winner of the Nobel prize for medicine in 1926; at Copenhagen, Denmark...
...learned world knew versatile Dr. Michelson as the first man who ever computed the size of a star, as winner of the Nobel Prize in physics (1907), as the man who fixed the standard length of a metre bar in terms of the wave length of cadmiun light. It was he who helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer, nor as an excellent violinist, nor as a keen tennis player, nor as an amateur of literature and drama...
...Nobel diplomas were handed to M. Buisson and Herr Quidde by tall, rugged King Gustav V of Sweden. Diplomas covering literature, medicine and physics were then handed by His Majesty to winners announced some weeks ago (TIME...