Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romain Rolland, 77-year-old Nobel Prizewinning novelist (Jean-Christophe)* long unheard from, was reported in a German concentration camp. A longtime pacifist, he had returned to France and supported the war after nearly 25 above-the-battle years in Switzerland...
...between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...
Sigrid Undset, 61-year-old Nobel Prizewinner from Norway, declared that the thing about the U.S. that astonished her most was its women's clubs. "It would never occur to a European woman," said she, "to have lunch with a lot of other women, and not a male in sight. I must say I prefer mixed company...
...students of Nobel Prize Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech, the Lindegrens had long crossbred fruit flies, which breed a new generation every three weeks. Yeast can produce a new generation in as little as 20 minutes. Yeast cells, usually having no sex, reproduce simply by splitting in two. Under certain conditions yeast develops sexual characteristics and, like other plants, reproduces by means of spores. The Lindegrens cultivated yeast with spores, opened the spore sacs and cross-fertilized them, in this way bred thousands of new varieties of yeast. Finally, they got some to the king's taste...
Died. Dr. Karl Landsteiner, 75, world-famed discoverer of the four human blood types, 1930 Nobel Prize winner; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Shy, grey-mustached Landsteiner got his M.D. in his native Vienna in 1891, was stricken in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute in which he worked for 20 years...