Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizen has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature.* Last week's award did not break the 28-year-old rule. The Swedish Academy of Letters picked Germany's great Thomas Mann...
Many a guarded aspiration toward scientific fame subsided last week upon the awarding of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Joint winners were Professor Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University and Professor Christian Eijkman of the University of Utrecht. Both men pioneered in proving the existence, usefulness, necessity of vitamins in nutrition...
Many a U. S. nutritionist declared last week, without carping at the Nobel award to Professors Hopkins and Eijkman, that, if a future Nobel Prize for vitamin research is made, it should go to Professor Elmer Verner McCollum, 50, head of the department of chemical hygiene at Johns Hopkins school of hygiene & public health. He too was an early revealer of the vitaminic essentials for diet...
...salvation lay in making friends with her former enemies. After a brief interval as German Chancellor, 1923 found him Germany's Foreign Minister, a position he has retained ever since. There followed the Locarno pact, Germany's entrance into the League-a record that won him the Nobel Peace prize in 1926 and which he topped off with the enthusiastic signing of the Kellogg anti-war pact. This exhausting series of international conferences brought him the warm personal friendship of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, now Prime Minister of France. For five years Stresemann and Briand made...
...Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon. A brilliant master of conciliation he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen Berlin directly after the War. His brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen?Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission to South America which was champagned at El Jockey...