Word: nobel
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...prize of an annual value of $25,000, to be awarded to the American chemist of either sex who, in a period to be determined, makes the most outstanding contribution to the science of chemistry. This is one of the largest prizes in existence, being outranked only by the Nobel prizes of about $40,000, awarded annually, and the Bok peace prize of $100,000, to be awarded but once. A committee of leading chemists will administer it, including Drs. Edgar F. Smith (Pennsylvania), Ira Remsen (John Hopkins), T. W. Richards (Harvard), C. F. Chandler (Columbia), F. P. Venable (North...
...Christiania (Sweden) Evening Post published a list of names that have been proposed for the next award of the Nobel peace prize. They include Jane Addams, Secretary Hughes, Lord Robert Cecil, Professor John Maynard Keynes (author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace), Francisco Nitti (former Premier of Italy), Carl Lindhagen (Mayor of Stockholm), Warren G. Harding...
That Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, discoverer of? insulin,* will receive the next award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine seems logical from a survey of the scientific achievements of the past year. It has been suggested from several sources, and from the Edinburgh International Congress of Physiology comes the story that Dr. Banting will be recommended to the Swedish Academy of Medicine, which acts as the jury for this prize on behalf of the Nobel Foundation, custodians of the fund established in 1896 by the will of Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. The average value...
...Steinach (Austrian gland man) has also been mentioned, and outstanding achievement is notoriously no guarantee of jury actions, as witness the fact that Thomas Hardy, generally conceded the greatest living English man of letters, has yet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, not to mention Conrad, Shaw, Galsworthy, Barrie, Bennett, Wells, while second-rate Spittelers, Heyses and unknown Scandinavians are deified. Nevertheless, should he receive the medicine prize, Dr. Banting will be in distinguished company. It has been awarded 16 times since the year 1901. In 1906 and 1908 it was divided between two men, so that 18 medical...
...Collip, of the University of Alberta, who has since discovered " gluckokinin," an insulin substitute derived from green vegetables (TIME, June 4), and he especially profited by the friendly oversight and advice of Dr. J. J. R. McLeod, professor of physiology, who has also been mentioned for the Nobel Prize. To Dr. Banting, however, must always be given the lion's share of the credit for the idea and its development. In May, 1922, the work had proceeded far enough to be offered to the medical profession for testing. Tests, conducted by a special committee in several hospitals, have since proved...