Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hugh S. Taylor of Princeton; and "The Vitamin-B Complex" by Leopold Cerecedo of Fordham. A symposium on earthquakes and the structure of the earth will feature talks by Captain Nicholas Heck, chief of the division of Seismology, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and by Victor F. Hess, Nobel Prize winner in Physics...
Last week a distinguished scientist, Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Britain's greatest physiologist, ventured an answer-a 413-page book entitled Man on His Nature (Macmillan, $3.75). Sherrington's studies of the nervous system won him a Nobel Prize...
...Nobel Prize for Medicine was divided between Banting and Professor John James Rickard Macleod, his department head who had made the research work possible but had done none of it until after the basic discovery. Banting was sore because he felt that Charles Best, the laboratory assistant who had actually helped him track down insulin, had been slighted. He honored Best in his own impulsive way by giving him half of his own share of the prize money...
Fame and the Nobel Prize did not make Banting a happy man. He had started his career as a surgeon. All his life he wanted to be a surgeon, but the discovery of insulin had plumped him into a chair of experimental medicine (i.e., research). He was not suited to it. Obstinacy rather than brilliance had enabled him to discover insulin...
Died. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 49, University of Toronto professor who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin, since the start of World War II had served as captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps; with three others, when a military plane crashed in Newfoundland...