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Birthday. Albert Abraham Michelson, measurer of light, first U. S. Nobel Prizeman in science (physics, 1907), whose optical studies gave Albert Einstein a main clue to the Relativity Theory.* Age 77. He marked the week by resigning as head of the physics department at the University of Chicago because of ill health. Next spring at Pasadena, Calif., Professor Michelson, now convalescing from an operation, will peer through a very straight corrugated iron pipe, from which air will have been evacuated, to determine more accurately than heretofore the speed of light...
...late great German, Robert Koch (1843-1910), who with the late great Louis Pasteur (1822-95) gave medicine its modern turn and who lived long enough to win a Nobel Prize (1905),* discovered the tuberculosis bacillus. It is often called Koch's bacillus. One of Koch's and Pasteur's early disciples in the new medicine was young Léon Charles Albert Calmette (born 1863, at Nice). He began to practice medicine in Paris as their discoveries and technique were beginning to spread. He was then 23 and amenable to military service, like every young Frenchman after the Franco-German...
...Swedish Alfred Bernhard Nobel's posthumous Prize-giving began in 1901. Emil von Behring (1854-1917), German, won the first Prize in Medicine for his discovery that the serum of an immunized person will confer immunity against the same disease on another into whom it is injected (Behring...
...organizing work in Canadian medicine. Because his C. M. A. office is at Toronto, Toronto was made headquarters for the Royal Canadian College of Physicians & Surgeons. Generally acclaimed as the greatest of Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught at McGill. By grading of the Nobel prize the living Canadians who have contributed most to medicine are Frederick Grant Banting, 38, Professor of Medical Research at the Uni-versity of Toronto, and his preceptor, John James Rickard Macleod, 53, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto until 1928. Since then Dr. Macleod has returned...
...Swede Nobel's bequest was $9,000,000. Every year 68% of the income is available for prizes; 22% for "expenses." The remaining 10% is added to the slowly increasing fund. Original Nobel Prizes in 1901 were $40,511. After the War they declined to a low of $30,802 in 1923, due to high taxes and depreciation of the Swedish kronor. This year for the first time Sweden has taken most of the taxes off the Nobel Fund, a deed of grace long stormily debated...