Word: nobeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth is circled by electrically charged layers in the upper atmosphere, came to know more about them than any man alive (there is an Appleton layer, usually about 140 miles above the earth*). His researches made possible the development of radar, won him a knighthood and the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics...
Niels Bohr, one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, whom Oppenheimer affectionately refers to as "my father," was interviewed in his native Denmark by TIME "stringer," Kai Schou. A Nobel prize winner and one of the leaders in the fellowship of physics whom Oppenheimer first met at Cambridge University, Bohr had escaped from Nazi-occupied Denmark to collaborate with Oppenheimer and the other scientists in the research and development of the atomic bomb...
This year, the five Swedish professors who form the committee that picks the Nobel Prizewinners in physics and chemistry debated long and secretly. One of the leading candidates was a Swede, and the Swedish committee did not want to be accused of favoritism. Last week they announced their decision: Sweden's Professor Arne Tiselius, 46, of Uppsala University, got the $44,371.63* prize in chemistry...
British Atoms. The Nobel Prize for physics went to Britain's Professor Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 50. Blackett, like Tiselius, is less a theoretician than a master of physical technique. In 1924, he took the first photograph of the disintegration of an atomic nucleus. In 1929, he developed an electronic tripping device which made cosmic rays take their own pictures...
...money value of Nobel Prizes varies with the income from the Nobel Fund, invested in Swedish state bonds, railway and industrial securities and real estate. Top year: 1931 ($48,102); bottom year...