Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise award of the 1946 Nobel literary prize to an old German named Hermann Hesse will seem more of a surprise to those who read this book of his. Steppenwolf (The Wolf of the Steppes), first printed in Germany in 1927 and in the U.S. in 1929, has long been out of print, and is now brought out again to cash in on the Nobel publicity. It is a repellent example of that beery old thing, German Romanticism, being sick in the last ditch before Naziism...
...ttingen last week, cheerful, bushy-browed Dr. Werner Heisenberg, a top German physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize, said that Russia had made a standing offer of $6,000 a year to any German atomic scientist who would work for the U.S.S.R...
France is building an "atomic village" for 2,000 workers at Saclay, ten miles southwest of Paris, and has a large-scale program headed by Nobel Prizewinner (and Communist Party member) Frederic Joliot-Curie; his staff includes several men who helped plan the Chalk River project. Britain has set up five centers, with experimental piles near Oxford, and has already spent...
...research rather than plutonium production-and they have some of the world's most brilliant atomic scientists. Niels Bohr, who back in 1939 pointed out theoretically that it was the rare U-235 which underwent fission when bombarded by slow neutrons, heads the Danish program. Two other Nobel Prizewinners, Manne Siegbahn and Theodor Svedberg, lead the work at Sweden's new laboratories. The Swiss Federal Council has voted over $4,000,000 for atomic research...
Last week, from nonscientific Dublin, of all places, came news of a man who not only understands Einstein, but has bounded like a bandersnatch far ahead (he says) into the hazy, electromagnetic infinite. Austrian-born Nobel Prizewinner Erwin Schrödinger, of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, claims to have generalized still further Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. If so, he has scored a scientific grand slam: mathematical physicists (including Einstein himself) have been trying to do this, without success, for the last 30 years...