Word: nobel
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Professor Willstattey, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1915, is a famous authority on ferments in the digestive organs. One of the most distinguished of organic chemists, he has by large-scale methods succeeded in making notable advances in the study of these particular ferments. His receiving of the Noble award immediately followed that of Professor T. W. Richards, A.M. '86, of the Chemistry department...
...invitation to Professor Willstattey succeeds that of Professor William Einthofen who received the Nobel award for 1924 while here, and that of Professor Harrison of Yale...
Charles Gates Dawes: "Last week it became known that fortnight ago, when I received my $15,775 check for my Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20), I at once indorsed it to the order of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, which is about to be established at Johns Hopkins University. The check was forwarded to Owen D. Young, Chairman of the School's Trustees, by my brother Rufus, as part of Chicago's $100,000 allotment in the $1,000,000 fund being raised. Mr. Young, besides writing me a nice letter, wrote a more...
...Swedish Who's Who gives Dr. Svedberg's Christian name as "Theodor (The)." Dr. Svedberg received the 1926 Nobel prize for Chemistry...
...will probably have been informed already that press reports led you into error in regard to the name of one of the recipients of a Nobel award [TIME, Dec. 20]. Dr. Svedberg's name is The and not, as the press assumed, Theodore. The error was very widespread, and I am writing this not as a complaint, but merely for your future information. It is not surprising that a name such as The should be assumed to be an abbreviation of Theodore...