Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unknown elements, no other elemental discovery has been made since Hafnium, No. 72, in 1923, at Copenhagen, by Chemists Coster and Hevesy. And never before has a new element been first discovered in a U. S. laboratory. It may well mean for Dr. Hopkins, they said, the $40,000 Nobel chemistry prize in 1926, an honor won by no other U. S. chemist save Professor Theodore Richards in 1914 for work on atomic weights...
...hitting our man too many times on the same blood-clot. Nevertheless we remember that there have been in years a gone double-decker novels whose power increased with their size. Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil" was such a one; it captured a dinky little Nobel Prize or something of the sort. Then there was Fielding's "Tom Jones"--pretty good for an old-timer, what...
Died. Dr. H. Kamerlingh Onnes, 73, famed as the first scientist to liquefy helium, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1913), Emeritus Professor and Director of the Physical Laboratory at the University of Leyden; at Leyden, Holland...
...still higher state of excitement, were throwing off a new kind of light. Comparing the voltages employed to produce these effects, Dr. Compton found that the ratio checked exactly with the theoretic scale of atomic energies postulated a decade ago by the Dane, Niels Bohr, who got the 1922 Nobel prize for physics in payment for his pains. Dr. Compton's work was the first actual confirmation of Bohr's theory, the first laboratory demonstration of the only atomic mechanism of which man has an apparently complete picture...
...penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment the author neglects to enlarge upon them specific attainments. He is a violent little Voltaire with faith in epithets and protoplasm, but not in philosophy. In 1913 he took a Nobel Prize for physiology, and to him wisdom is manifest in the perfect functioning of an animal organism unmolested by what others have been pleased to call the "higher" mental faculty. Farfetched, superficial, his book is but an amusing social irritant...