Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen (1845-1923), German physicist, discovered X (or roentgen) rays; won the 1901 Nobel prize...
Died. Ladislaw Stanislaw Reymont, 57, famed Polish novelist (The Peasants), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924, at Warsaw...
Meanwhile the personality and eccentricities of Mr. Nobel were recalled at length. Born in 1833, at Stockholm, he was so delicate and sickly as a child that when his family moved to St. Petersburg it was feared that he would not survive. There, however, he grew into a nervous high-strung youth, who paradoxically combined extreme personal sensitiveness with a passion for explosives...
Later, as the opulent proprietor of 15 dynamite factories located throughout the world," Mr. Nobel developed many whims unrelated to explosives. For example, he was fond of pictures yet tired so easily of them that he preferred not to buy any. An obliging Parisian art dealer accommodated him. Mr. Nobel might choose any pictures which struck his fancy, and the dealer would rent them to him until he grew irritable and called for others...
Professor Arthur G. Green, English scientist, sailed home last week from Manhattan, and his excitement was so great that he could not keep from talking with a ship-news reporter. He had seen Dr. Alexis Carrel (Nobel Prize Winner in 1912), and he had seen a piece of tissue from the heart of a chicken which Dr. Carrel cut from a live bird in 1913. The tissue is still alive and growing. Motion pictures have been taken of its processes of development...