Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Venezuela to the Newfoundland fisheries, from the Pan-American Conference to the Hague Court, this shrewd lawyer became the angel of arbitration. He was made head of the Carnegie Endowment, an organization with an income of $10,000,000 to spend for international peace. In 1912 he won the Nobel Peace Prize...
Died. Rudolf Christoph Eucken, 80, "dean of German philosophers," professor at Jena University, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for literature; at Jena, Germany, of pneumonia...
Among other things that the chemists were to do was the presentation of a gold award to Professor Sabatier of the University of Toulouse, Nobel prizewinner in 1912, who led the French delegation. The award was to be supplied by the Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap) of Cincinnati whose debt to Professor Sabatier is great, he having perfected a catalytic effect with nickel that permits hydrogen to be added to many compounds, "especially the oils," whence soap of a famed fractional purity is manufactured...
Already, last week, the chemistry world was astir with impending events. Delegations from nine European countries, from Japan and South America, poured in. Leading his French colleagues was Chemist Paul Sabatier, Nobel prizeman in 1912, dean of the science faculty at Toulouse University. The senior chemists of many another famed university were expected...
...them laboratory supplies, scrimped over their household expenses. They found their germ and two years ago perfected their technique of cure and prevention. Topping this, to them satisfactory reward, the immunologists, bacteriologists and pathologists meeting in Albany recommended by secret vote that Dr. George Dick receive the next Nobel Prize in medicine...