Word: nobel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Again the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded by the Swedish Academy. Again no American had arisen to such distinction. The recipient was Ladislas St. Reymont, Pole, aged 56, author of 23 volumes of short stories and novels, in particular author of The Peasants (4 vols., 1902-06), for which the prize this year was given. In form a novel, the work actually constitutes a review of Poland's history since her partition at the close of the 18th Century...
Professor Einthoven denied the report that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for research in physiology, declaring that he had had no official notification of any such honor...
Among other Harvard chemistry professors who have received high recognition is Professor Richards, who with Professor Baxter and others, established and developed the "Harvard methods" of almost mathematically fine determinations, so-called both in Europe and America, which won for Professor Richards the Nobel prize in chemistry...
Established but a few years ago the Pulitzer prizes have already won an esteem in the field of American letters similar to that commanded by the Nobel awards in the sphere of internation at scholarship. It is exceedingly gratifying therefore, that a member of the Harvard faculty has been announced as one of the winners. And the fact that Professor Mellwain has won the award on the basis of a treatise on the American Revolution--a subject which had apparently been exhausted by generations of American historians--is an added tribute to his scholarship. The compliment paid to a great...
...three general addresses were made by 1) Robert A. Millikan, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, and Nobel prizewinner for 1923, on The Atom as Seen by the Physicist. 2) Dr. Gilbert N. Lewis, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, on The Atom as Seen by the Chemist. 3) Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, Director of Science Service, and author of Creative Chemistry, on The Expansion of Chemistry. The Society also divided into the following general divisions, as well as many smaller sections: chemistry of medicinal products; organic chemistry; industrial and engineering chemistry; physical and inorganic chemistry...