Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter Debye, winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1936 (TIME:, Dec. 28), is right. What the electron microscope needs is better definition by better focusing of electron waves. But when higher magnification is attained it will be by shorter waves, higher voltages...
When a dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria on Dec. 10 replaced the annual Stockholm award of the Nobel prizes (discontinued since 1939), it was found that 28 laureates now live in the U.S., counting eleven who have recently arrived, most of them to escape Hitler. Eleven attended the dinner...
Germany, claiming racial superiority, likes to point to her wide lead in the number of Nobel awards...
...frown from the Nazis, Domagk rejected a $40,000 prize from the fund established by the peace-loving inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel...
...German-speaking listeners Philadelphia's station WTEL brought news this week: U.S. technical research, declared WTEL in impeccable German, is superior to the Reich's, will help win the war. The speaker was Biochemist Dr. Otto Meyerhof, refugee Nobel Prizewinner (1922). He was only one of numerous authorities on a new program now telling Philadelphia's 200,000 German-Americans why the Nazis are not invincible...