Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweden regarded him as easily her most distinguished international politician. His interest in the League of Nations was enthusiastic and he did much useful work on various committees of that body. In 1921, M. Branting, with Christian L. Lang of Norway, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace...
Albert became an instructor in physics at the Naval Academy, and then continued his studies at Heidelberg. Soon afterward he began to acquire the reputation that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907 and distinctions and degrees without number. He was, for example, the first to measure the diameter of distant stars...
Died. Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, 79, Swiss epic poet and essayist, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize for Literature; at Lucerne. He wrote in German...
...Willcm Einthoven, physiological researcher of Leyden University, Holland, went the Nobel Prize for outstanding achievement in Medicine and Physics during 1924. He has invented a device by which the beat of the human heart may be seen, measured, photographed, diseases of the heart detected, its action studied. It was in recognition of this device that the prize was awarded. Dr. Einthoven. genial 64-year-old Dutchman, is now visiting the U. S. He is sprightly, small, with a small grey beard, small grey mustache, wears in his countenance the alert and boyish shyness peculiar to men who have spent their...
Since 1903, the following have received the Nobel Prize for Peace?...