Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared that she was: she had won the Nobel .prize for literature ($29,000 at present exchange rates), and Nobel prizewinners accept the awards in Stockholm if possible...
When the war began, most of the world's scientists started working-and still work -in secrecy. Last week the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, after due thought, gave three Nobel prizes to men who had made their scientific marks before the blackout...
...other honors, Elder Statesman Cordell Hull could now add the Nobel Peace Prize for 1945.* Explained the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, which announced its first peace award since 1938, in Oslo this week: Hull, the eighth American to be so tapped, had done most to lay the foundations for the San Francisco Conference...
...Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, was awarded one-third of the $30,000 Nobel Prize in medicine; sharing it with him were two less publicized British penicillinists-Sir Howard Walter Florey, organizer of the research team which found practical means of extracting the capricious drug, and Dr. Ernst Boris Chain, the team's chief research genius...
Professors, including many Nobel Prize winners, deserted their campuses to live in dusty deserts. Workers trekked in their trailers - careful New England craftsmen, burly Southern Negroes, all the races and types of the great U.S. In general terms they were told the shouting urgency of the mighty thing they were doing, but few of them knew its extraordinary character...