Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced that the Nobel Prize for Medicine for 1922 (not previously awarded) has been divided between Prof. Archibald V. Hill, professor of physiology in University College, London, and Prof. Otto Meyerhof, professor of physiology at the University of Kiel, Germany, for their researches on muscular contraction...
...humanitarian work. Dr Nansen received this year the Nobel Peace Prize and he is without doubt one of the foremost figures among the active workers of the league of Nations. He is said to be an excellent speaker and to possess a perfect command of English...
From Stockholm announcement was made that the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1923 had been awarded to the Irish poet-author, William Butler Yeats...
...Former Nobel Prize for Literature winners: Year Name Nationality...
...Robert Andrews Millikan, native American of Anglo-Saxon stock, was awarded the 1923 Nobel prize for physics. This is the fourth time that a Nobel award has been made to an American scientist.* The fact that 66 men and women in all have received Nobel decorations in physics, chemistry and medicine in the 23 years since they were inaugurated, gives America no particular license to crow. As Dr. Millikan himself has said, "We have not produced one-half as many-I think I may say one-fifth as many-out-standing scientific men in proportion to our population as have...